1. He says to me, “What do you eat?”
2. He said to me, "What do you eat?""
Answers
Answer:
he asks / tells me that what I eat
he asked me what I ate
Answer:
1.He asks me what I eat.
2.He asked me what I ate.
Explanation:
*The question number 1 is direct speech interrogative sentence,"wh" type.
*We have to convert the question into indirect speech.
*When the reporting verb is in present tense or future tense,the tense of the reported speech need not be changed.
*In the reporting verb "says to" is changed into "asks".
*In the reported speech,comma and quotation are removed.
*Pronoun "you" is changed into "I".
*So the answer is,
He asks me what I eat.
*The question number 2 is in direct speech interrogative sentence "wh" type.
*We have to change the question into indirect speech.
*We must follow the interrogative rules.
*In the reporting speech, "said to" is changed into "asked".
*In the reported speech, comma and quotation are removed.
*Tense and pronoun are changed.
*So the answer is,
He asked me what I ate.