Question

indirect speech of "go to bed!" father said to the children.​

Answer 1

Answer:

father ordered children to go to bed

Answer 2

The father ordered the children to go to bed. This will be the indirect speech form of the given sentence.

Direct speech into indirect speech:

• Direct speech is the exact quoting of the dialogues in inverted commas, whereas indirect speech is a report of the dialogue. Hence it is also called reported speech.
• The given form of the sentence is imperative as the father is commanding/ordering his children.
• Thus in indirect speech, the reporting form will be introduced by some verb expressing command/order (here ordered is used).
• The children are ordered and hence they will change to the third person in the reported form. The tense is not changing here.

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