Question

He said, "Alas! My house has been
Reduced to ashes."what is the indirect of this sentence​

Answer 1

Answer:

He exclaimed with sorrow that his house had been reduced to ashes.

Answer 2

Answer:

He exclaimed with sorrow that his house had been reduced to ashes.

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.