change into indirect speech (1)Jo flourished her broom as she called out... “How do you do? Are you
sick?" flourish c/ Hey broom
Laurie opened the window and croaked out as hoarsely as a raven......
“Better, thank you. I've had a bad cold and been shut up a week.
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Answer:
Jo flourished her broom and enquired of Laurie how she did. She further asked her if she was sick.
Laurie opened the window and croaking like a raven replied that she was better and thanked her. She further added that she had had a bad cold and been shut up a week.
Explanation:
(Jo flourished her broom and enquired of Laurie how she did. She further asked her if she was sick.
The first two sentences were interrogative cases. When we convert an interrogative sentence starting with wh- word, we don’t add any conjunction such as ‘that’, ‘if’ etc. We just use the wh-word and turn the question into statement. The other tense and pronoun changes are applied as per the reported speech rules.
Second sentence was a Helping-Verb Interrogative Case. While reporting such cases we apply the following rules:
1. Use conjunction 'if' or 'whether' to join the reporting verb with the speech to be reported.
2. Convert the interrogative into statement.
3. Change the pronouns and tenses as per the reported speech rules. )
(Laurie opened the window and croaking like a raven replied that she was better and thanked her. She further added that she had had a bad cold and been shut up a week.
These sentences were statements. We changed them using the tense rules and pronoun rules that are applicable to Indirect Speech rules for statements. )
Answer:
Conversion from direct to indirect speech for the given snippet would be:
Jo flourished her broom and called out to Laurie to ask about how he was doing and whether he was sick. Laurie opened the window and she croaked hoarsely like a raven and she responded that she was feeling better and thanked Laurie for asking. She also added that she was having a bad cold and had been shut up for a week.