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2. He said to his brother, “Work hard to reach your goal.”

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3. Anil said to Deepak, “Do not touch my bag.”
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4. The manager said to his staff, “Do your work honestly.”
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5. My father said to me, “Think deeply before taking any decision.”
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Conversion of Exclamatory Sentences

• Exclamatory sentences express a strong emotion or a feeling. To convert an exclamatory
sentence into reported speech:

• change the exclamatory sentence into an assertive sentence and remove the quotation
marks and the exclamation mark.

• use the conjunction that and add the word very before an adjective or an adverb.

• omit the use of various interjections like oh, alas, hurrah, etc.

• change the reported verb say or said to exclaimed.
• use a form of the verb be if the verb is missing.

• Shweta said, “How beautiful the painting is!” (direct speech)

Shweta exclaimed that the painting was very beautiful. (indirect speech)

Test Yourself

IV. Change the speech of these sentences from indirect to direct.

1. She said that she was buying a coffee grinder that day.

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2. She said she couldn’t remember what she said.
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3. He told me he would be out of town for a month.
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4. Our teacher said the next history lesson would be on ancient India.
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5. Gulliver told the Lillputians to stay away from the sea.

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