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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.
For example:

Shweta said, “How beautiful the painting is!” (direct speech)
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Shweta exclaimed that the painting was very beautiful. (indirect speech)

Practice Time 4

Change the following sentences into indirect speech.
1. Shweta said, “How beautiful the Dilwara Temples are!”
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2. She said, “Oh, what a beautiful flower this is!”
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Direct and Indirect Speech
3. The priest said, “What a busy day!”
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4. He said, “Hurray! I have won the match.”
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5. The captain said, “May God bless you with success!”
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Practice Time 5

A. 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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