Indirect speech

"Don't touch it!" she screamed.
1. She told him loudly not to touch it.
2. She screamed at him not to touch it.
3. She forbade him to touch it.
4. She asked him not to touch it.
"How are you? I know you've not been well."
1. He asked me how I was and said he knew I hadn't been well.
2. He enquired after my health.
3. He asked me how I was.
"What a fine horse!"
1. He said he thought it was a fine horse.
2. He exclaimed how fine the horse was.
3. He complimented the horse.
"Will it come in time?" he asked himself.
1. He asked himself whether it would come in time.
2. He wondered if it would come in time.
3. He worried that it might be late.
"Picture that, if you will!"
1. He asked me to imagine his situation.
2. He asked me to draw it.
3. He ordered me to picture it.
4. He suggested I might like to picture it.
"You're only an amateur," he mocked.
1. He mocked me by calling me an amateur.
2. He laughed at me and said that I was an amateur.
3. He demeaned me.
4. He accused me of amateurism.
"I don't think it's interesting," he asserted.
1. He didn't assert that it was interesting.
2. He asserted that it wasn't interesting.
3. I said it was uninteresting.
4. He didn't think it was interesting.
"The show finished last week so you can't go, I'm afraid."
1. She explained that we couldn't go because the show had finished the week before.
2. She said the show had finished and therefore we couldn't go.
3. She said she was afraid and the show had finished so we couldn't go.
4. She told us not to go because the show had finished.
"How should I know?"
1. He asked me how he should know.
2. He told me he didn't know.
3. He professed surprise that I had even asked.
4. He wanted to know how he should find out.
"You always take me too seriously," he laughed.
1. He joked that I always take him too seriously.
2. He said with a laugh that I always take him too seriously.
3. He said that I always took him too seriously.
4. He told me not to take him seriously.

Indirect speech

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