Question

change to indirect speech

"Don't you know the way home?" asked I.

Answer 1

Turning into indirect speech: I asked him whether he knew the way home.

Answer 2

Answer:

Indirect Speech: I asked if he didn’t know the way home.

Explanation:

In grammar, there are two kinds of speech. Where one quotes the exact words, direct speech is involved, whereas in an indirect speech, it is spoken of in the past.  

In 'direct speech', we use the quotes to frame the sentence showing it is quoted text and in 'indirect speech', quotes are removed.  

There is no tense change in 'direct speech' whereas in 'indirect speech', we must change the tense depending upon the tense of the words spoken.

Example:  

Direct speech: Jack said,” There is a monkey outside the window.”

Indirect speech: Jack said there was a monkey sitting outside the window.