Question

the following sentence into indirect speech:

He said to me," Have you a pen?"

Answer 1

He asked me if I had a pen?

Answer 2

He asked me whether I had a pen. -This is the answer.

About indirect speech:

• The sentence that is given in direct speech must be changed into indirect speech.
• When a sentence is changed into indirect speech, the comma and quotation marks must be removed.
• The given sentence is interrogative. So the question mark must be removed in reported speech we must used 'asked' because it is a question.
• As it is a yes/ no question we should use 'whether'.
• The entire sentence is converted into past tense. That is the verbs take the past tense form. Thus the verb 'have' changes into 'had'.
• The person within the quotation marks must be changed in reported form accordingly. So 'you' becomes 'I'.
• As we are changing question form to indirect form of speech, the noun will precede the verb. So 'have you' becomes 'I had' in indirect form.
• Therefore the answer is: He asked me whether I had a pen.