Question

[ convert the following into indirect speech ]

1) Ram said to Mohan"who are you to speak me like this ? Why should I obey you ? It is your work not mine to call the servants ".​

Answer 1

Answer:

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Answer 2

Answer:

Ram asked Mohan angrily who he was to speak to him like that; he further asked him why he should obey him and told him categorically that it was his work not his to call the servants.

Explanation:

The first two sentences were interrogative cases. In this case the reporting verb 'said to' is changed into 'asked', enquired' or 'wanted to know'. When we convert an interrogative sentence starting with wh- word, we don’t add any conjunction such as ‘that’, ‘if’ etc. We just use the wh-word and turn the question into statement. The other tense and pronoun changes are applied as per the reported speech rules.

The third sentence was a statement. When we change the narration of a simple statement, we do the following changes in the given sentence:

1. We connect reporting verb clause with quoted speech (direct speech) using 'that'

2. We change the tense of the quoted speech into the past tense.

3. We change the pronouns according to the subject and object pronouns or nouns.