Question

they said to us,"don't cut trees"

change into indirect speech.​

Answer 1

Explanation:

we were told not to cut trees

Answer 2

Answer:

They said to us,"don't cut trees."

( Direct speech)

They told us not to cut trees.

( Indirect speech)

Explanation:

•Direct speech uses quotation marks and the exact words that are/were said are written.

•Whereas, In indirect speech, quotation marks are not used and exact words, as they were said are not written.

•For example,

Kriti said, "My plants need water." is in direct speech. To report what Kriti said in indirect speech, we will remove the comma and quotation marks, use 'that', change the noun / pronoun to third person, change the verb or tense if required. The sentence becomes, Kriti said that her plants needed water.

•For the given sentence in direct peech, They said to us,"don't cut trees". We will remove comma and quotation marks, 'said to' becomes 'told', don't is changed to 'not to', the verb 'cut' as well as rest of the sentence remain the same. So, in indirect speech, the sentence can be rewritten as,They told us not to cut trees.( Indirect speech)