Question

Report the following dialogues:
Adichie: Who made this basket?
Fide’s mother: Fide’s brother has made it
You may begin like this:
Adichie asked Fide’s mother _______________
Fide’s mother replied ___________

Answer 1

Hint: In order to report a dialogue, one should be well-versed in changing sentences from Direct Speech to Indirect Speech. We need not reproduce the actual words of the speaker exactly.
We are more concerned with the sense of the utterance than with the literal repetition of the words.

Complete answer:
Reported or indirect speech is usually used to talk about the past, so we normally change the tense of the words spoken. We use reporting verbs like 'say', 'tell', 'ask', and we may use the word 'that' to introduce the reported words. Inverted commas are not used.

In this question,
Report the following dialogues:
Adichie: Who made this basket?
Fide’s mother: Fide’s brother has made it
You may begin like this:
Adhichie asked Fide’s mother who made that basket
Fidie’s mother replied that it was made by Fide’s brother.

When we use direct speech in writing, we place the words spoken between quotation marks (" ") and there is no change in these words. We may be reporting something that's being said NOW (for example a telephone conversation), or telling someone later about a previous conversation.

Note: Rules followed for reported speech:
Rule 1 : If the reporting verb is in the present or future form, then there will be no change in
reported speech.
Rule 2 : If the reporting verb is in the past form, then the verb in the reported speech is changed into the corresponding past tense .