Question

Change the following sentences into Indirect Speech:
(i) The teacher said to the boy, "Get out of the class room."
The teacher instructed the boy .......
(ii) She said to me, "what will you do now?”
She asked me .............​

Answer 1

Answer:

The teacher instructed the boy to get out of the class room.

She asked me what would I do then

Answer 2

The given sentences in indirect speech will be:

1. The teacher instructed the boy to go out of the classroom.

2. She asked me what I would do then.

* Indirect speech or reported speech is used to address the words of the speaker without directly quoting them.

* For interrogative sentences, 'said' changes to 'asked'.

* In most of the cases, the tense remains the sense, however, there are changes in certain words.

'will' changes to 'would', 'can' changes to 'could', 'may' changes to 'might', 'now' changes to 'then'.