ask not what your country can do for you but ask what you can do for your country,said john ennedy. tell me how to change this sentence in indirect speech

Hello Mr McAlpin here from Australia just a matter of not quoting his exact words . Try this : John Kennedy stated that you should not ask what your country can do for you but instead you should be asking what you can for your country . You cant put this in quotation marks because they are not his exact words but stating from a third person perspective what he said in the speech .

Does that all make sense for you , Kim ? Mr McAlpin

To change the given sentence from direct speech to indirect speech, you would need to adjust the pronouns, verb tense, and the structure of the sentence. Here's how you can change the sentence:

Direct speech: "Ask not what your country can do for you but ask what you can do for your country," said John F. Kennedy.

Indirect speech: John F. Kennedy advised not to ask what your country can do for you, but to ask what you can do for your country.

In the indirect speech version, the pronoun "your" is replaced with "you," and the verb tense "can do" is changed to "could do." Additionally, the question structure is modified to a declarative statement.