Question

I said to him,"Please explain the matter to me." (indirect speach change)​

Answer 1

ANSWER

I REQUESTED HIM TO EXPLAIN ME THE MATTER

Answer 2

Answer:

The indirect speech of the given sentence is "I requested him to explain the matter to me".

Explanation:

     The given sentence is an imperative sentence in direct speech. An imperative sentence is a sentence which implies an order, instruction, request, command, and forbiddance etc with a hidden subject that mostly represents the second person of ‘you’. So while changing the imperatives to indirect speech sentence,

• Imperative verbs or words like requested, commanded etc are used to replace the word said in the direct sentence.  
• Along with ‘to-infinitive’.
• Past tense form of the verb.