While changing into indirect speech the reporting verb will be changed to 'asked' and the tense of the reported speech will be changed to Past Continuous tense.
English Grammar CTET MCQ - Speech
'Why are you looking through the keyhole?" I said, is correct direct speech of the indirect speech of the given sentence.
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Point out the correct indirect speech of the sentence.
"Would you like to come with us?" they said,
"Would you like to come with us?" they said,
The correct indirect speech would be 'They invited me to go with them'. Here, 'us' changes to 'them' and verb 'come' changes to 'go'. Also said changes to 'invited' as it is a verbal invitation.
An oxymoron is a figure of speech in which two seemingly
contradictory terms appear side by side. 'Pleasing' and 'distress' are both antonyms in this sentence.
