Question

the capitain said, 'this is an occasion to celebrate'. change into indirect speech​

Answer 1

Direct Speech

The captain said, 'this is an occasion to celebrate'.

Indirect Speech

The captain told that that was an occasion to celebrate.

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Answer 2

The speech of the given sentence can be changed as shown and explained below:

The captain said that that was an occasion to celebrate.

Explanation

This sentence was a statement. When we change the narration of a simple statement, we do the following changes in the given sentence:

1. We connect reporting verb clause with quoted speech (direct speech) using 'that'

2. We change the tense of the quoted speech into the past tense.

3. We change the pronouns according to the subject and object.