The teacher said, "Come to the blackboard and solve this problem."

[Tait-ka]

The teacher said, "Come to the blackboard and solve this problem."

I wrote the above sentence.

The scenario is,
The teacher is in class, standing near the blackboard, asking a student* to come to the blackboard to solve the problem which is written on the blackboard.
I used "this" because the teacher is pointing to the problem written on the blackboard.

(* The student could be me or any other student, let's say Tom.)

What would be the reported speech of the above bolded sentence in case 1 and case 2?
Case 1: the student the teacher is addressing is me (TaitKa)
Case 2: the student the teacher is addressing is Tom, for example.

My try:

For case 1:
The teacher told me to go to the blackboard and solve that problem.

For case 2:
The teacher told Tom to go to the blackboard and solve that problem.

Is my try for both cases correct?

 

[5jj]

They are not incorrect for this artificial type of exercise. In real life, I'd be more like to say:

The teacher told me to go to the blackboard and solve the problem.

 

[jutfrank]

What would be the reported speech of the above bolded sentence

I really want to say once again (as poiltely as I'm able!) that what you're trying to do is mistaken. There is no single way to transform sentences like this. This is a false idea that I guess you got from school doing mindless mechanical grammar exercises.

Can I ask why you're asking these questions about reported speech?