Question

The fairy asked the woodcutter if he had lost his axe.
chage into direct speech

Answer 1

Answer:

The fairy exclaimed to the woodcutter that whether he had lost his axe .

Explanation:

Answer 2

ANSWER :

• ✠ Indirect Narration :-

➨ The fairy asked the woodcutter if he had lost his axe.

• ✠ Direct Narration :-

➨ The fairy said to the woodcutter, "Have you lost your axe ?"

________________________________

❍ Note :-

• ✎ In case of an interrogative sentence, if the sentence in Direct Narration is in Present Perfect Tense and thd reporting verb is in Past Tense form, it is changed to Past Perfect Tense in Indirect Narration.

• ✎ If the interrogative sentence starts with an auxiliary verb, then the if/whether is used as conjunction in Indirect Narration.

____________________________________________________________

KNOW MORE :

❒ Types of Narration :-

• ➬ Direct Narration

• ➬ Indirect Narration

____________________________________________

❒ Direct Narration :-

• ➬ In Direct Narration, the words of the speaker is expressed in the same way that it is said by the speaker i.e, with speech marks and using exactly the same words.

• ➬ The words of the speaker are kept within Inverted Comma (" ") in Direct Narration and there we need ti use Comma (,) between the Reporting Verb and Direct Narration.

• ➬ The verb that introduce the Direct Narration is called Reporting Verb.

____________________________________________

❒ Indirect Narration :-

• ➬ In Indirect Narration, the words of the speaker is expressed without speech marks and without necessarily using exactly the same words, keeping the meaning same.

• ➬ Unlike Direct Narration, there is the need of using "that" or any necessary conjunction instead of the the Comma (,) in Indirect Narration.

• ➬ There is also needed some grammatical changes while changing the speech from Direct Narration to Indirect Narration.