Question

1. Change the following sentences into indirect speech.

a) The teacher said to the students, "Where have you been so long?"
b)She said to the children, "Can you swim?"
c)Rubel said, "What a fool I am!"
d)The poor man said, "Alas! I have lost everything.".
e)I said to him, "May you get GPA-5 in exam."​

Answer 1

The teacher asked the students where they had been so long.

She asked the children whether they could swim.

Rubel said with grief that he was a fool.

The poor main exclaimed with grief that he had lost everything.

I asked him whether he might get GPA-5 in exam.