Question

father asked him,"have you no school today?(N.C)

Answer 1

father asked him if he had no school that day.

Answer 2

"The answer is, “The father asked him if he had no school today.”

There is two speech – indirect and direct.

We are converting direct to the indirect speech, hence, the inverted commas will be eliminated and the tense will change.

You need to understand the reported speech format that can give you accurate reported verb.

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