Question

Change into indirect speech.
1-He said to me, "What were you doing yesterday? "
2-He said "Oh! What a misfortune! "

Answer 1

Answer:

1. He asked me what I was doing the previous day.

Answer 2

1. He asked me what was I doing the day before.
2. He exclaimed with sadness that it was a misfortune.

In the solutions above, the provided sentences has been changed to indirect speech. While doing these conversions, the following things should be kept in mind-

• There should be a complete removal of quotation.
• If it is a question, then 'said to' should be changed to 'asked'.
• The subject in the first sentence is 'me'. In such cases it will be changed to 'I'.
• Words like 'yesterday' and tomorrow should be changed to 'the day before' and 'the day after', respectively.
• In exclamatory speeches, the exclamation mark should be removed.
• The feeling due to which the exclamation word has been used, should be identified.
• Instead of using the mark, we should write 'exclaimed with' and then write the feeling. It may be joy, grief, etc.