Question

He said, "did you cutdown this tree?change into indirect speech
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Answer 1

Answer:

He asked me if I cutdown that tree.

Explanation:

Answer 2

The indirect speech will be "He enquired if he had cut down that tree".

What is Reported speech?

• Reported or indirect speech includes narration of dialogues in the third person format. The dialogue does not include the exact same words used by the narrator.
• One way to identify the speech in indirect form is by looking for inverted commas, a reported speech would never contain inverted commas.
• Here, we transform the direct speech into indirect speech by replacing 'said' with 'enquired' as there is a question asked.
• The tense in the direct speech is simple present and that will turn and change to past perfect tense.
• Lastly, the pronoun 'this' will change to a third-person format and become 'that'.

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