Writing with Tenses / Direct & Indirect Speech
Requests
Report a request naturally with asked + listener + to + V1. Please usually signals politeness rather than a word that must remain in the reported clause. Requested that is another, often more formal, structure.
Understand and use it
Report a request naturally with asked + listener + to + V1. Please usually signals politeness rather than a word that must remain in the reported clause. Requested that is another, often more formal, structure.
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She said to me, "Please help me." → She asked me to help her.
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