Mother : when will you be coming home ?
Daughter: I am not sure but I'll touch with you at about 6pm
Answers
Answer:
okay so what I have to do
In other words how can I help u?
Answer:
This question is direct indirect speech; it should be converted as shown below:
Mother asked the daughter when she would be coming home.
The daughter replied that she was not sure but she would be with her at about six p.m.
Explanation:
First sentence was an interrogative case. When we convert an interrogative sentence starting with wh- word, we don’t add any conjunction such as ‘that’, ‘if’ etc. We just use the wh-word and turn the question into statement. The other tense and pronoun changes are applied as per the reported speech rules.
The second sentence was a statement; so we used the reporting verb 'replied'. We use conjunction ‘that’ when we join the indirect speech with the reporting verb. First person pronoun ‘I’ was changed into third person pronoun ‘she’ as the subject was 'daughter'. Second person pronoun ‘you’ was changed into ‘her’ because the object was assumed 'mother’. ‘will’ was changed into ‘would’ because the reporting verb was in the past tense; tense uniformity has to be maintained while changing direct speech into indirect speech.