Question

change into indirect speech :

1) Meenu asked the teacher, 'may I sit here ?'

2) Sanjeev said to his friends, 'can I play with you?'

3)mother said to Ritu, 'why are you disturbing me?' ​

Answer 1

1)Meenu asked her teacher that can she sit there

2)Sanjeevasked his friends that can he play with them

3)Mother asked Ritu that why was she disturbing her

Answer 2

The following three sentences can be changed into indirect speech as follows.

(1) Meenu asked the teacher if she could sit there.

(2) Sanjeev asked his friends whether he could play with them.

(3) Mother asked Ritu why she was disturbing her.

Saying what a speaker has said without mentioning the exact words is known as an ‘Indirect Speech’.

Here ,it is essential to make the correct use of the reporting verb like "said to" or "say" in the correct tense.

There are some more requirements also along with this for changing a direct to an indirect speech.