Question

Manish said to me,`Are you going there tomorrow?`(use :whether)

Answer 1

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Manish said to me,`Are you going there tomorrow?`(use :whether)

(Change into Indirect Speech)

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Manish asked me if I was going there the next day.

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Additional Information:

In form of Direct Speech:

• The actual words of the speaker are put within inverted commas (" ")
• A comma(,)is used before these words,seperating them from the first part of the sentence.
• The qouted words begin with a Capital letter.

In form of Indirect Speech.

• Here,the qouted words are not in inverted commas,but are introduced by conjunction'that'.
• There is no comma after Reporting Verb 'said'.
• The tense of the Reporting Verb is never changed.

Rules to Change Direct Speech into Indirect Speech in forms of Interrogative Sentence.

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Rule1:

Whether or if is added,if the Reported Speech admits 'yes' or 'no'.

Rule2:

But whether or if is not used if the Reported Speech is introduced by an interrogative pronoun or adjective or an adverb then when,why,which, where are added.

Rule3:

Then the question form is changed into one of a statement. The conjunction 'that' is never used in such cases.

Answer 2

Direct sentence

Manish said to me, ''Are you going there tomorrow?''

Indirect sentence

Manish asked me whether I was going there the next day.

Changes made in the above sentence are :

Said → asked

, → whether

You → I

Are → Was

Tomorrow → The next Day

SOMETHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

• For changing a sentence from direct to indirect, all commas disappear.
• The Sentence is usually changed into past sentence