Direct Speech into Indirect Speech
I'd like to know how I should change the following sentence into Indirect Speech and please explain it to me why it is so changed. Thanks a million.
" Will you not come in, Kyaw Kyaw? said the teacher.
The teacher asked ..........................................
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", which is also a polite way of asking someone to come in. In which case, the reported speech would be: The teacher asked Kyaw Kyaw if he would come in.
- ", which is also a polite way of asking someone to come in.
- In which case, the reported speech would be: The teacher asked Kyaw Kyaw if he would come in.
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It would be more natural to say "Won't you come in?", which is also a polite way of asking someone to come in.
In which case, the reported speech would be:
The teacher asked Kyaw Kyaw if he would come in.
0To exactly express the words that were said, it should be "The teacher asked Kyaw Kyaw if he would not come in". However, with the inclusion of "not", this is verging on the hard-to-understand. Often the reported speech would be abbreviated, even down to "The teacher asked Kyaw Kyaw to come in".
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