Question

My frind said to her, "how old are you"?

Answer 1

Direct Speech :My friend said to her, "How old are you"?

Indirect Speech : My friend asked her how old she was .

Additional Information :

• In direct speech , the actual words of the speaker are conveyed and are enclosed within quotation marks
• Indirect speech is also known as reported speech .
• Reported speech is where the actual words spoken are a bit modified but there won't be any change in the meaning .
• Direct and Indirect Speeches are also termed as Direct and Indirect Narrations
• When the reporting or principal verb is in the Past Tense, all Present tenses of the direct are changed into the corresponding Past Tenses.
• Universal Truths or habitual actions don't alter on their tense formats in reported speech
• Reporting Verb like ‘said/ said to’ changes to asked, enquired or demanded
• If sentence begins with ‘wh’ questions then no conjunction is used as the "question-word" itself act as relative pronoun !!