Question

The boy told the master, 'Sir, I am tired. Can I go home now?'
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Answer 1

Answer:

The Boy told the master, 'Sir, I am tried. Can I go to home now?'

Answer 2

Complete question:

The boy told the master, 'Sir, I am tired. Can I go home now?'

​Transform into indirect speech.

Answer:

The boy told the master (that) he was tired and asked whether/if he could go home then.  

Explanation:

• In English, there exist two ways of relating what someone has said namely, 1) Direct and 2) indirect/reported.

• When there is a repetition of the exact words of the original speaker represented within quotation marks, it is called direct speech(quoted speech).

• While in the case of indirect speech, the exact meaning of the speaker's words is conveyed by the modified words, expressed with no speech marks.

• Since here the reported verb of the direct speech is in the past tense, all the present tenses get changed to the corresponding past tense.

• The first part can be reported as The boy told/said to the master (that) he was tired.

• In the second part, we will add if/whether to report an indirect yes/no question (questions with or).

Therefore the given sentence can be transformed into reported or indirect speech as follows:

The boy told the master (that) he was tired and asked whether/if he could go home then.  

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