Question

Change the sentence -

I said "Do you have a pen ?"​

Answer 1

Question -

I said "Do you have a pen?"

Answer -

I asked if he had a pen.

Explanation -

Indirect speech or reported speech is referred for a dialogue being said to a third person or in telling what happened to the third person.

For example,

He said "Did you complete your homework"? (direct sentence)

He asked if I completed my homework. (indirect sentence)

In the given example, while writing in indirect/reported form, the sentence changes according to its tense and according to other rules too.

The rules are as follows -

✔️ Some words are changed when converting it into indirect. For example, 'this' changes to 'that', 'today' changes to 'that day', 'yesterday' changes to 'the previous day' etc.

✔️ If the sentence is in form of a question, then the word 'said' is changed to asked.

✔️ The punctuation marks except a full stop (.) isn't used in a sentence with indirect speech.

Answer 2

Answer:

I asked if you had a pen.

Step-by-step explanation:

Direct Speech : In the direct speech, the words of speaker are quoted without making any changes.

Indirect Speech : In the Indirect Speech, the words of speaker are changed. The words are changed, because actually the words were spoken in past and now it is narrated in present.

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Let's see some of the changes that we use while transforming Direct to Indirect Speech ;

Now - Then

Here - There

Today - that day

Yesterday - the day before

Tomorrow - the next day

This - that

Ago - before

Thus - so

Hither - Thither

Hence - Thence

Come - go

These - those

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