Question

he said to me, "may you live long."

Answer 1

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He blessed me that I might live long.

Additional information:

• The verb which introduces the Reported Speech is called the Reporting Verb.
• The exact words of the speaker which are put within Inverted commas are called the Reported speech.
• In indirect speech , we change the above type of sentences in the following manner:
• Reporting verb said to is changed into wished, blessed, cursed, prayed.
• We use connective word 'that' with these sentences.
• After 'that' the whole sentence is changed into assertive .
• We omit the exclamation mark in indirect speech .