Direct, Reported speech

“Are you alone, my son?” asked a soft voice close behind me.

• A soft voice asked that what I was doing there alone.

• A soft voice said to me are you alone son.

• A soft voice from my back asked If I was alone.

• A soft voice behind me asked If I was alone.

She said to him, “Why don’t you go today?”

• She asked him why he did not go that day.

• She said to him why he don’t go that day.

• She asked him not to go that day.

• She asked him why he did not go today.

“If you don’t keep quite I shall shoot you”, he said to her in a calm voice.

• He warned her to shoot if she didn’t keep quite calmly.

• He said calmly that I shall shoot you if you don’t be quite.

• He warned her calmly that he would shoot her if she didn’t keep quite.

• Calmly he warned her that be quite or else he will have to shoot her.

I told him that he was not working hard.

• I said to him, “you are not working hard.”

• I told to him, “you are not working hard.”

• I said, “you are not working hard.”

• I said to him, “he is not working hard.”

His father ordered him to go to his room and study.

• His father said, “go to your room and study.”

• His father said to him, “go and study in your room.”

• His father shouted, “go right now to your study room”

• His father said firmly, “go and study in your room.”

He said to his father, “please increase my pocket money.”

• He told his father, “Please increase the pocket money”

• He pleaded his father to please increase my pocket money

• He requested his father to increase his pocket money.

• He asked his father to increase his pocket money.

She said that her brother was getting married.

• She said, “her brother is getting married.”

• She told, “her brother is getting married.”

• She said, “my brother is getting married.”

• She said, “my brother was getting married.

“What did you eat for breakfast today?” the doctor asked the patient.

• The doctor asked the patient whether he had eaten breakfast that day.

• The doctor asked the patient what he had eaten for breakfast that day.

• The doctor asked the patient whether he has eaten breakfast that day.

• The doctor asked the patient whether he was eaten breakfast that day.

The employer said to him, “I shall pay your wages tomorrow.”

• The employer said that he shall pay your wages the next day.

• The employer told him that he would pay his wages the next, day.

• The employer said that I shall pay my wages the next day.

• The employer said that he shall pay his wages the next day.

“Why are you looking through the keyhole?” I said.

• I asked him why he was looking through the keyhole.

• I said to him why he is looking through the keyhole.

• I said to him that why he was looking through the keyhole.

• I asked you why you are looking through the keyhole.