Question

Report the following sentence.

"Don't touch me", he said to her.

• A. He asked her whether he touch him.
• B. He asked her whether he touched him.
• C. He told her not to touch him.
• D. He told her don't touch me.

Answer 1

Answer:

C. He told her not to touch him.

• The sentence “Don’t touch me” is an imperative (negative command).

• In reported speech, an imperative sentence is changed using told / ordered / advised + object + not to + verb.

• said to changes to told, and don’t changes to not to.

• Pronoun me changes to him.