Question

Read the conversation below and fill in the blanks in Indirect Speech :
Son : Dad! I want a racing bike.
Father : No. You aren’t eighteen yet.
Son : What does it matter?
Father : Do you know how to ride a bike?
Son : Of course, dad! I rode my friend’s bike a number of times.
Father : This is wrong. I promise to get you one only when you are eighteen.

Indirect speech :
A son asked his father to get him a racing bike but his father (a) ……….. The son argued (b) ……….. His father asked (c) ………. The son replied (d)………… Then his father told that was wrong and promised him that (e) …….

Answer 1

A son asked his father to get him a racing bike but his father (a) replied in negative and said that he was not eighteen till then The son argued (b) what that mattered His father asked (c) if he knew how to ride a bike The son replied (d) in affirmative and said that he had ridden his friend’s bike a number of times Then his father told that was wrong and promised him that (e)  he would give him a racing bike when he (son) was eighteen.