Question

Please teach me to cycle"" she asked her brother.

Answer 1

Answer:

Indirect Speech:

She requested her brother to teach her to cycle.

Explanation:

• There are two main ways of reporting.

• These are direct speech and indirect or reported speech.

• When we use direct speech, we quote the actual word spoken by a person.

• In writing, this is shown within quotation marks

• When we use indirect speech, we do not quote the actual words spoken by a person.

• But convey their meaning in our own words.

• The connector that is used to introduce indirect words.

Answer 2

Given Sentence:-

• Please teach me to cycle"" she asked her brother. (Direct speech)
• She requested her brother to teach her to cycle. (Indirect speech)

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How the tense changed?

Present Simple → Past Simple

Present Continuous → Past Continuous

Present Perfect → Past Perfect

Present Perfect Continuous → Past Perfect Continuous

Past Simple → Past Perfect

Past Continuous → Past Perfect Continuous

Past Perfect → No change

Past Perfect Continuous → No change

Explore more:-

There are two ways of reporting what someone has spoken:-

a) When the exact words spoken by a person are used , it is called direct speech.

b) When the words spoken by a person are put in our own words , it is called indirect speech.

For example:-

Suppose your friend told you that you have a good handwriting. You want to convey this to your parents.You can do it in either of these two ways :-

• My friend said to me, "You have a good handwriting. (Direct speech)
• My friend told me that I had a good handwriting.(indirect speech)

Related information:-

• The exact words of the speaker, written within Quotation marks or Inverted commas (“ ”) is called Reported speech.
• The verb that introduces the Reported speech is called a Reporting verb