Question

He said, "hurrah! we have won the match." - - change it to indirect statement.

Answer 1

He said, "hurrah! we have won the match." This can be changed into an indirect statement as He exclaimed in the joy that they had won the match.

While changing the given direct statement, keep these points in mind:

• The given sentence is an exclamatory sentence displaying the emotion with ' hurrah!' so it can be changed by using exclaimed with joy in the indirect sentence.
• The given sentence is in present perfect tense so while converting it into indirect statement it will be changed into past perfect tense.

Answer 2

He exclaimed with joy that they had won the match. -This is the answer.

Explanation:

• The sentence that is given in direct speech must be changed into indirect speech.  
• When a sentence is changed into indirect speech, the comma and quotation marks must be removed.
• The given sentence is an exclamatory sentence. So we have to remove the exclamation mark and introduce the word 'exclaimed with joy', or 'exclaimed in happiness'.
• The person within the quotation marks must be changed in reported form accordingly. So 'we' becomes 'they' in reported speech.
• The entire sentence is converted into past tense. That is the verbs take the past tense form. Here it is in present perfect. So it becomes past perfect.
• That is, the verb form 'have won' becomes 'had won' in indirect speech.
• Therefore the answer is: He exclaimed with joy that they had won the match.