Question

He said “how is your father”?(change into indirect speech)

Answer 1

The given sentence can be changed into indirect speech as follows.

• He said, “how is your father”? → He asked how my father was.
• When converting direct speech to indirect if the main verb is already in the past tense then the tense is changed into another type of past tense.
• When changing Direct speech into Indirect speech the use of 'that' is optional.

Answer 2

He asked how my father was.

• To change the above direct speech to indirect speech we have to consider the below facts-
• As the phrase in the colon is interrogative so, we have to use asked.
• As the phrase outside the colon is in past tense so, we have to write the indirect form in past tense also.
• Thus, the indirect form will be as follows-
• He asked how my father was.