Question

The old lady said to me , " What is your name ( Indirect s​

Answer 1

Question:

• The old lady said to me, “What is your name?” (change it into indirect speech)

Answer:

• The old lady asked to me that what is my name. (changed into indirect speech)

SOME OTHER NOTES TO KNOW:-

☞Direct speech is what the speaker actually says.

☞Indirect speech is reporting it from the narrator's point of view.

REMEMBER

✯The reporting verb is usually in the past tense.

✯In the reported speech words denoting first person (I, my,me, mine, myself, we, our, us, ours, ourselves) change according to the subject & words denoting second person (you, your, yours, yourself, yourselves) change according to the object.

✯Demonstrators in the reported speech change, e.g. ‘this’ into ‘that’ ; ‘now into then’ ; ‘here’ into ‘there’ ; ‘tomorrow’ into ‘the next day’ ; ‘Yesterday’ into ‘the previous day’. Then is usually dropped.

WHEN QUESTIONS ARE REPORTED:

➜Indirect questions beginning with auxillary verbs are introduced by ‘if’ or ‘whether’.

➜Indirect ‘wh-questions’ are introduced by the ‘wh-word’ which begins the question in the direct speech.

➜Word order is inverted, e.g.

‘Why are you making noise?’ becomes ‘Why they are making noise’.

I HOPE IT HELPS YOU FRIEND ☺️

Answer 2

★ Question:-

The old man said to me, "What is your name?"

★ Required Answer:-

The old lady asked me my name.

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★ More Information:-

When we use the exact words as used by the speaker in a sentence, we use the direct speech.

When we do not use the exact words as said by the speaker, but give only the substance of what he/she used in our own words, we use the indirect speech.

Eg:-

• The teacher said, "He is a good student." (Direct Speech)
• The teacher said that he is a good student. (Indirect Speech)

★ Changing direct speech to indirect speech ★

• Use reporting verbs (said, thought, told) followed by that.
• Remove the punctuations especially the inverted commas ('...')
• The tense should be changed to past tense. (was)

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