Question

Mr. Abdul said to me, "Why are you late today?" (change into indirect speech) ​

Answer 1

Indirect Speech: Mr Abdul asked me why I was late that day.

The indirect (reported) speech changes into the past indefinite tense when the reporting verb is in the past (said) and the direct speech is in the present indefinite tense (simple present tense).

Past indefinite tense is superior to the present tense.

Additionally, we employ reporting verbs like asked, enquired, etc. if the statement is an interrogative.

Indirect speech - Communication that conveys what someone said without using their exact words is known as indirect speech.

A grammatical device known as indirect speech allows one to report the content of another statement without directly quoting it. For instance, Jill claimed she was coming in the English language, whereas Jill saying "I'm coming" would constitute direct talk.

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Answer 2

Mr. Abdul asked me why I was late that day.

Here the given sentence is in direct speech so according to the instruction we have to convert it into indirect speech-

• First we have to begin with the same subject which is available in the direct speech sentence.
• We should find the verb available in the given sentence and according to the type of the sentence we should use reporting verb.
• Here the given sentence is an interrogative sentence so according to that we have to use asked as a reporting verb.
• In interrogative sentence we have to use proper conjunction.
• If the question begins with WH word we should use the same WH word as a conjunction.
• If the question begins with helping verb we have to use if or weather as a conjunction.
• We should make the changes in tense properly, we should convert the tense into past tense.
• Sentence the word 'today' is there so we should convert it into 'that day.'

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