Question

i said to him,"please come to me"(change into indirect speech)​

Answer 1

I told him to come to me.

Answer 2

Question:-

Change the given sentence into indirect speech:-

• I said to him,"please come to me"

Answer:-

• I requested him to come to me

How the tense changed?

• Present Simple → Past Simple

• Present Continuous → Past Continuous

• Present Perfect → Past Perfect

• Present Perfect Continuous → Past Perfect Continuous

• Past Simple → Past Perfect

• Past Continuous → Past Perfect Continuous

• Past Perfect - No change

• Past Perfect Continuous - No change

Explore more:-

There are two ways of reporting what someone has spoken:-

a) When the exact words spoken by a person are used , it is called direct speech.

b) When the words spoken by a person are put in our own words , it is called indirect speech.

For example:-

Suppose your friend told you that you have a good handwriting. You want to convey this to your parents.You can do it in either of these two ways :-

• My friend said to me, "You have a good handwriting. (Direct speech)

• My friend told me that I had a good handwriting.(indirect speech)

Related information:-

• The exact words of the speaker, written within Quotation marks or Inverted commas (“”) is called Reported speech.

• The verb that introduces the Reported speech is called a Reporting verb