'where is the post office?' asked the stranger 2) he said,'will you listen to me' 3) he said,'will you listen to me?' 4) john said to peter,'go away'
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Answer:
1. The stranger asked where the post office was.
2. He asked him if he would listen to him.
3. He asked him if he would listen to him.
4. John ordered Peter to go away.
Explanation:
It was an interrogative case. The reporting verb 'said to' is changed into 'asked', enquired' or 'wanted to know'.When we convert an interrogative sentence starting with wh- word, we don’t add any conjunction such as ‘that’, ‘if’ etc. We just use the wh-word and turn the question into statement. The other tense and pronoun changes are applied as per the reported speech rules.
Second type of interrogative reported speech is Helping-Verb Interrogative Case. While reporting such cases we apply the following rules:
1. Use conjunction 'if' or 'whether' to join the reporting verb with the speech to be reported.
2. Convert the interrogative into statement.
3. Change the pronouns and tenses as per the reported speech rules.
When we change an imperative direct speech or vice versa into indirect speech we do the following changes:
1. Reporting verb is changed according to the request, advice, suggestion, or command tone of the sentence.
2. Linking word 'to' is used to join the quoted speech with the reporting verb. In case the sentence is negative 'not to' is used.
3. The other changes of the tense, time adverbials, and pronouns are the same.
Answer:
the stranger asked me where the post office was.