Question

Report the dialogue.
Mathan: Hello Rahul, how are you?
Rahul: Fine Mathan, what brings you here?
Mathan: I have just come to see you. It has been a long time since we met.
Rahul: Thank you. Let us have coffee.

Answer 1

Hint: Use words like ‘asked’ when there is a question being asked in the dialogue and use ‘said’ or ‘replied’ for a reply.

Complete step by step answer:
The dialogue can be written in reported speech as follows:

Mathan greeted Rahul and asked him how he was. Rahul replied positively and asked Mathan what brought him there. Mathan replied that he had come to see Rahul as it was long since they had met. Rahul thanked him and asked him to have coffee with him.

Note: Make sure there is no question being asked in the reported speech form of the dialogue. The questions need to be converted to statements.