Question

The beggar said, 'would that I were rich! '
Change into indirect speech fastttttttttttt.

Answer 1

the beggar said that he wanted to be rich

Answer 2

Answer: The poor beggar wished that he had been rich.

Explanation:

Direct speech is the type of speech where the message of the speaker is in his own words but in the case of indirect speech, the message of the speaker is conveyed or reported in his own actual words without any change.

The sentence given in the question is an opetative sentence and there are certain rules given for conversion of the direct optative sentence in the indirect optative sentence:

1) the reporting verb changes into wish or pray.

2) the optative form changes into assertive form.

3) the reported speech is introduced with the conjunction.

4) tenses and pronouns are changed according to the rules.