Question

5) Father said, "You can't go with me." (Change into indirect speech.)​

Answer 1

Father said, "You can't go with me." (Change into indirect speech.)

• Father said to me that I can't go with him

Answer 2

The correct sentence in indirect speech:-

Father said that he/she couldn't go with him.

• Here, in the given sentence, we have been instructed to write the given sentence that is in 'direct speech' into the 'indirect speech'.
• In the given sentence, it is in the direct speech and the indirect form of the sentence is 'Father said that he/she couldn't go with him.'
• Note:- While changing a sentence to a different speech that is in this case in the indirect speech, we have to keep the meaning and the words of the sentence intact.
• In the indirect speech, there is no dialogue involved in the sentence.
• Hence, The correct sentence in indirect speech:- Father said that he/she couldn't go with him.