Final answer:
The original sentence in direct speech is 'I may come to the party', which changes to 'he might come to the party' in reported speech, adjusting the modal verb for past tense narrative.
Step-by-step explanation:
Reported speech is when we tell someone what another person said. To do this, we can use direct speech or indirect speech. direct speech: 'I work in a bank,' said Daniel. indirect speech: Daniel said that he worked in a bank.
The passage you've provided seems to contain snippets of dialogue from different contexts, all centered around social interactions and particularly instances of characters attending events such as dinners, parties, and other social gatherings. To answer the student's original question: 'I may come to the party'.
He said that he might come to the party. Here, we have converted the direct speech into reported speech, also known as indirect speech, and have made sure to backshift the verb 'may' into 'might' to match the past tense narrative.