Your quick reference guide to Change of Speech (Direct and Indirect Speech/Narration) for competitive exams. Covers rules for converting direct to indirect speech (remove quotation marks, change pronouns, adjust tenses, change time/place expressions), indirect to direct speech (add quotation marks, adjust pronouns, revert tenses, restore time/place expressions), tense changes in indirect speech (present to past, past to past perfect, future to conditional), pronoun changes (first person to subject, second person to object, third person unchanged), reporting verb changes (say/says/said to tell/tells/told, ask, order, request, advise, suggest, exclaim), time and place expression changes (now to then, today to that day, here to there, ago to before, tomorrow to the next day, yesterday to the previous day), imperative sentences (commands, requests, advice, suggestions), interrogative sentences (yes/no questions and wh-questions), exclamatory sentences (surprise, joy, sorrow, wonder), sentences with let (proposals, suggestions), universal truths (tense remains unchanged), and shortcut tricks for SSC, Banking, Railways, UPSC, CAT, and other competitive exams.