Question

She said to me, "May you defeat your rivals!"
into indirect

Answer 1

Conversion of direct into indirect speech

Explanation:

The indirect form the given sentence 'She told me, "May you defeat your rivals!"' is

I was told by her that I might defeat my rivals.

• The conversion of direct speech into indirect or oblique speech is a grammatical mechanism of paraphrasing the content material so as not to quote the statement directly said by the speaker.
• Indirect speech is used as a mechanism to report the context of the speaker. The main keyword for conversion into indirect speech is 'that'.
• 'that' is used to introduce the statement first.