Indirect speech

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

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