Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.

He said to his employee, “Do not provoke me unnecessarily.”

He warned his employee not to provoke him unnecessarily.

The correct indirect form of the given sentence is:

He warned his employee not to provoke him unnecessarily.

The other options are incorrect:

• He requested his employee do not provoke him unnecessarily. This is incorrect because a request is more polite than a warning.
• He told his employee not to provoke me unnecessarily. This is incorrect because the speaker is talking to their employee, so we use the pronoun "you" instead of "me".
• He told to his employee to not provoke him unnecessarily. This is incorrect because we do not use the preposition "to" after the reporting verb "told" when the reported speech is a command or a warning.