Question

She asked me, “Will you help me?”
The above sentence is in direct speech.
a. True
b. False

Answer 1

Hint: In direct speech, the original and exact word of the original speaker is repeated. There are no changes made and the words are spoken between quotation marks.

Complete solution:
There are two ways of relating what a person has said, i.e. by using direct and indirect or reported speech.

Now in direct speech, the original speaker's exact words are repeated and in indirect/reported speech, the exact meaning is expressed but not necessarily using the original speaker's exact words. You must remember that when we turn direct questions and exclamations into indirect speech, they are converted to affirmative statements, so that the symbols - ? and ! are not used.

Since the given sentence is in the direct speech as it is reported using inverted commas and the original words of the speaker are repeated as it is, and question mark is used, this implies option ‘a’ is correct.

Hence, the correct answer is a) True.
The other option is wrong as the given sentence is not in the form of indirect speech.

Note: You should be familiar with the concept of direct and indirect speech so as not to confuse the usage of both the speeches.