Question

She said to him, “Have you no one to care for you, grandpa?she______________________________________(change into indirect speech)

Answer 1

The sentence can be changed into indirect speech as:

She asked her grandpa if he had no one to take care of him.

How to convert a direct narration into indirect narration?

• When converting a sentence into indirect speech, we remove the quotation marks or inverted commas used in the direct speech.
• If the tense of the verb inside the quotation marks is in the present perfect tense like above, then we change it into the past perfect tense.
• For interrogative statements, 'if' or 'whether' are used.