Direct.
He said, Alas! I am undone.into indirect speech
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Answer:
He exclaimed that he was undone.
Answer:
He exclaimed that he was undone.
The word “said” suggests the verb form of the reporting word.
The exclaiming word “alas” plus the very exclamation mark “!” get replaced by the suitable reporting word “exclaimed”.
The first person pronoun “I” changes to “he” in order to agree with the subject of the sentence outside of the inverted commas.
The auxiliary verb “am” is changed to “was” to be in agreement with third person pronoun “he”.
The finite verb “ undone “ that's in the past participle form remains unchanged.
It must be taken into serious consideration that in changing from direct speech to indirect/reported speech we have to know who is/are doing the reporting, who is/are listening. In simplifying this point of view let's think of a scenario where I have to teach-drill three Grade Twelve classes A, B, C. The sentence structure we have to work on is: