Question

"Why are you crying ?" said women to a little boy change into indirect speech

Answer 1

The given direct speech can be converted into indirect speech as shown and explained below:

The woman/women asked the little boy why he was crying.

Explanation:

It was an interrogative sentence. When we convert an interrogative sentence into indirect speech 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.