Question

He asked me if I knew the manager change into direct speech.

Answer 1

Answer:

He said to me, “Do you know the manager?” is the direct speech of given sentence.

Explanation:

When an indirect speech is changed to direct speech the ‘tense’ of the ‘reporting verb’ remains the same, so ‘asked’ which is in the ‘past tense’ is reported as ‘said’ which is in the ‘past’. We don’t use the verb ‘ask’ because it is denoted by the question mark in the direct speech. The other verbs which are in the past tense in indirect speech change to ‘present tense’ in the direct narration so ‘knew’ becomes ‘know’.