Question

Rewrite the following direct speech to reported speech. Last week a very drunk man got into a bus and sat near a skinny girl. She looked at him with contempt and said " you are very drunk. It is quite distinguish . What will your mom and dad feel when you arrive home like that?" He replied "does your husband sleeping with a dry stick or what?" ...etc

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Answer: Last week a very drunk man got into a bus and sat near a skinny girl. She looked at him with contempt and told him that he was very drunk and that it was quite distinguished. She asked him what would his mom and dad feel when he arrived home like that. He asked If her husband slept with a dry stick, or what.

Explanation: Reported speech takes a dialogue said by a specific person, and changes it to its past form, to report the information to the listener. When the girl talks to the man, she uses simple present and future, therefore, the reported speech changes the tenses to simple past and would: "She told him that he was very drunk and that it was quite distinguished. She asked him what would his mom and dad feel when he arrived home like that." Then, the man responded with simple present, so it changes to simple past: "He asked If her husband slept with a dry stick, or what."