Question

"Alas! They lost everything in the fire," the boys said​

Answer 1

Answer:

the boys exclaimed with sorrow that they had lost everything in the fire

Answer 2

Answer:

The boys exclaimed with sorrow that they had lost everything in the fire.

Explanation:

Here, we have to convert the speech of the sentence.

The given sentence is an Exclamatory sentence.

To change the speech of an exclamatory sentence, we use the joining word 'that'.

Also, the word in place of said is 'exclaimed'.

And we have to make the sentence in the reported speech a simple sentence.