Question

change it into indirect speech.My mother said to me,"May you succeed in your life"​

Answer 1

Answer:

My mother wished me I might succeed in life.

Indirct speech:-

Another term for reported speech.

May - might.

Will -would.

Can - could

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

My mother said to me, "May you succeed in your life!"​ (direct speech )

My mother prayed that I might succeed in life. ( Indirect speech )

Explanation:

• Indirect speech is a mechanism for reporting what someone said without using speech marks and without using the exact same words.

• The first step is to check the reporting verb. In the given sentence,

          My mother said to me, "May you succeed in your life."​ , 'said' is

        the reporting verb. If the reporting verb is in past tense then

        the tense of the verb in the reported speech will also change      

        from present tense to past tense.

• Here we have an optative sentence in the reported speech. Optative sentences have a prayer, keen wish or curse and start with 'May' or 'would' and end with a mark of exclamation (!).

• If the sentence of reported speech is started with the word 'may' then 'said to' of the reporting speech is replaced with 'prayed'. 'May' is converted to 'might' in the reported speech.

• The sentence, My mother said to me, "May you succeed in your life!"​ in direct speech will be converted as: -

        My mother prayed that I might succeed in life. ( Indirect speech )