Question

He said to him "why do you stop here ?"
(change into reported speech)​

Answer 1

Explanation:

The answer will be: He asked him the reason for his sudden stopping here. Direct speech is shown in conversational form and when the entire sentence is changed into the indirect speech, it is in the form of the reporting and narrating the event.

Answer 2

He asked him why he stopped there. This is the answer.

Converting to indirect speech:

• The words uttered by a person can be reported in two different ways.
• Direct and Indirect.
• When one quotes the exact words of the speaker, we call it direct speech.
• On converting a question into indirect speech the reporting verb said is converted to asked, enquired etc.
• Hence the correct answer is: He asked him why he stopped there.