Question

He said to me, “Who are you and what do you want?”
Change the above sentence into indirect speech.

Answer 1

Hint: Indirect speech is often in the past tense since it is used to report what another might have said. We may demonstrate that someone's speech is being represented without using inverted commas by introducing the sentence with the word "that."

Complete answer:
Indirect speech is often in the past tense since it is used to report what another might have said. The simple present tense in the recorded expression transitions to the simple past tense during the conversion from direct to indirect speech.

In the reported speech, the second person shifts to the third person.
Using these two rules to convert the following sentence:
The phrases "who are you" and "what do you want" are replaced with "who I was" and "what I wanted."
'You' becomes 'I' in the second person pronoun.

So, the sentence becomes: "He asked me who I was and what I wanted."


Note: There are some general principles to follow when converting a direct speech sentence to indirect speech:
- The question mark, exclamation point, and other punctuation marks are omitted from the end of the sentence.
- The word 'that' is used.
- The 'Tense' is modified so that when a person says something specifically, he uses present tense, and when describing what another person says, past tense is used.