Question

She cried," It will strangle you to death." (Rewrite as reported speech)​

Answer 1

Answer:

She cried that it will strangle him to death.

Answer 2

She cried that , that would strangle him/her/it to death .

Here the above sentence is in Reported speech also called as indirect speech .

In Indirect speech the third person is involve either he or she in informs or narrates the story of the talk between first and second person that is the speaker and the listener .

So , in indirect speech we use indirect word search as that .

★ Note :

Here we have used Him/Her/It in the place of You (in direct form) as we don't know about the second person who was involved .

★ Steps to change the speech :

• Remove the quotation marks and the commas whenever they be found in the sentence .

• Add or remove the indirect word : that according to necessity .

• Make sure to use indirect words for the subject .

Example :

He said , " Come here ."

→ He ordered that he must come there .