Question

Rani said to John"what are you doing".
change into indirect speech

Answer 1

Rani asked John what he was doing.

This is the indirect speech for the given sentence.

Answer 2

Rani asked John what was he doing.

In the above sentence, we have been provided a sentence that is in direct speech. It has been changed to indirect speech in the solution that has been provided.

Certain points should be kept in mind while making these conversions. They are as follows-

• All quotations should be completely removed.
• The tone of speech must be understood and the proper verb should be used. For example, a teacher while talking to the whole class generally announces something.
• Like in this case it can be easily understood that it is a question. So instead of using 'said to' or 'told', we used 'asked'.
• There should be a change in the tense. The message should be in past tense or forms of past tense.
• The meaning of the sentence must be left unchanged.