The tortoise said to the hare," let us run a race turn into imperative indirect speech
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Indirect/Reported Speech refers to a dialogue being told to a third person/reporting what happened to a third person.
Example: Tobias said,"I cannot do it." (Direct)
Tobias said that he couldn't do it. (Indirect)
In the above example, when writing in indirect/reported form, the sentence changes according to its tense. Also, modifications regarding certain words like 'this' changes to 'that', 'tomorrow' changes to 'the next day', 'will' changes to 'would', 'can' changes to 'could' and many other words have to be made. Also, if the sentence contains an interrogation, then 'said' changes to 'asked'. Punctuation marks other than a full stop (.) cannot be used in indirect/reported speech.
The tortoise said to the hare,"Let us run a race." (Direct)
The tortoise told the hare that they should run a race. (Indirect)
Answer:
the tortoise told the tortoise that we should run a race.
Explanation: