Question

she said to her friend,"will you have a cup of tea?"
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Answer 1

Question - direct - indirect speech : she said to her friend ," will you have a cup of tea

Answer - The sentence is converted in the indirect speech below -

• She asked her friend if she would have a cup of tea.
• Direct and indirect speech are the two types of representation of speech.
• Direct speech states direct words accompanied with inverted commas.
• Indirect speech uses one's own words to convey the same message.
• There are rules to convert direct speech into indirect speech.

Answer 2

Answer:

She said to her friend,"will you have a cup of tea?"

• The given sentence is a direct speech.
• It is informed to change the above sentence from direct speech to indirect speech.
• And the indirect speech is : She asked her friend if she would have a cup of tea.
• In the sentence reported speech is an example of interrogative sentence and it is written in Future Indefinite Tense.
• For Interrogative Sentence 'asked' is used instead of 'said to' and also 'if' or 'whether' are used instead of comma(,) as a linker.
• The 'reporting verb' is written in past tense. So 'will' has been turned into 'would'