Question

"would you mind passing the salt?" i said to him

change into direct speech

Answer 1

Indirect speech: I asked him if I would mind passing the salt.

Direct/Indirect speech in English Grammar

• There are two types of narration direct speech and indirect speech.
• In direct speech, the exact words of the speaker are quoted in inverted commas. It consists of a reported verb and reported speech.
• To change direct speech into indirect speech, one has to remove commas
• The speech needs to be changed into third person statement
• The form of the verb should be changed accordingly
• The present tense changes into the past tense.
• The past tense changes into past perfect.
• When someone directly narrates feelings, the verb form doesn't change.

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Answer 2

I asked him whether he would mind passing the salt.

Explanation:

Here the given sentence is an interogative sentence so while converting into indirect speech we should do the following changes-

• First we should start with the same subject so he are the subject is I we should start with the same.
• Here the verb is said to as it an interrogative sentence so we should use asked instead of said to.
• There are two type of interrogative sentence one begins with WH word and second is begin with helping verb.
• If the sentence begins with WH word we should use same WH word as a conjunction.
• If the question begins with helping verb so we should use if or whether as a conjunction.
• We should use proper pronoun according to the subject.

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