Question

Change into indirect speech the boy said to his mother have you sweets for me

Answer 1

The boy told his mother that have you sweets for me

Answer 2

QUESTION :

The boy said to his mother, "Have you brought sweets for me?"

Change into indirect speech.

ANSWER :

The boy asked his mother whether she had brought sweets for him.

The rules to change a direct speech into an indirect speech are as follows :

• The comma and the double quotations are to be omitted.
• The tense of the sentence inside the quotation does not change if the reported verb is in present tense.
• The tense of the sentence inside the quotation changes accordingly if the reported verb is in past tense.
• Here , the reported verb is in simple past tense, therefore the tense of the sentence inside quotation changes from present perfect tense to past perfect tense.
• ' You ' becomes 'she'.
• 'Have' becomes 'had'.
• Direct speech is a report of the exact words used by a speaker or writer. Contrast with indirect speech. Also called direct discourse.
• Direct speech is usually placed inside quotation marks and accompanied by a reporting verb, signal phrase, or quotation frame.
• In linguistics, indirect speech is a grammatical mechanism for reporting the content of another utterance without directly quoting it. For example, the English sentence Jill said she was coming is indirect discourse while Jill said "I'm coming" would be direct discourse.
• So the final answer is : The boy asked his mother whether she had brought sweets for him.

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