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Change the following to reported speech:

My mother said to me, "Did you break the slate?"

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The answer is:
My mother asked me if I broke the slate.

While changing an interrogative to indirect speech, the definiteness of the words 'did you' turns into a hypothetical expression 'if I broke'.

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