Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
He said to his employee, “Do not provoke me unnecessarily.”
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
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.