Question

Change the following sentence into indirect speech. Robert asked, "Joan,how old are you?""I am 13 years old,"she replied

Answer 1

Robert asked Joan how old he was. She replied that she was 13 years old.

INDIRECT SPEECH:

REFERS WHEN THE ACTUAL WORDS OF THE SPEAKER ARE CHANGED BY ADDING SOME VERBS & PROVERBS WITHOUT CHANGING THE MEANING.

Answer 2

Robert asked Joan how old he was to which she replied that she was 13 years old.

Explanation:

• Indirect speech is communication that informs you what somebody same however doesn't utilize the person's actual words
• Regularly modify the tense of the words declared once we utilize reported or declared speech to talk concerning the past
• We utilize words like say, tell and raise and therefore the reported words might aur might not begin with the word that. during this statement there aren't any inverted commas.
• In Indirect talks we tend to sometimes utilize the past.