Question

The old woman said, ‘May you live long!’ change into indirect speech

Answer 1

The old woman wished that he might live long..



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Answer 2

The old woman wished that I might live long.

The rules to change a direct speech into an indirect speech are as follows :

• The comma and the double quotations are omitted.

• The tense of the sentence inside the quotation does not change if the reported verb is in present tense.

• The tense of the sentence inside the quotation changes accordingly if the reported verb is in past tense.

• Here , the reported verb is in simple past tense, therefore the tense of the sentence inside quotation changes from simple present to simple past.

• ' You ' becomes 'I'.

• 'May' becomes 'Might'.

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