Question

the teacher said to the boys, "work hard to pass the examination" change it into indirect speech
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Answer 1

The sentence can be changed into indirect speech as :

The teacher suggested the boys to work hard to pass the examination.

What is indirect speech?

• In the field of English grammar, indirect speech is a kind of speech in which we report what someone has said using our own words.
• As the sentence above is making a suggestion hence we use 'suggested' instead of 'said' while changing the sentence into indirect speech.
• The quotation marks or inverted commas are removed in indirect speech.