Question

They said, what a fierce animals it is!​

Answer 1

Answer:

They said, "what a fierce animal it is!"

• They exclaimed in wonder that it was indeed a fierce animal.

Explanation:

• Reporting verb is : They said and the verb 'said' is written in simp past form.
• Reported speech is : '"What a fierce animals it is!" It is an exclamatory sentence. Exclamatory sentence expresses an emotion of deep feeling.
• Reported speech is always kept in inverted comma.

• Change of Exclamations :
• The reporting verb is changed into : exclaim with joy, exclaim in sorrow, exclaim in wonder, confess with regret, cheer, lament, shout with delight, to express sympathy, to express disgust, reporch oneself, etc.
• Exclamations are changed into statements. So a full stop is used at the end of the sentence.
• That is used as a linker.
• Auxiliary verb 'is' of reported speech has been changed into simple past tense 'was' according to reporting verb 'said'.
• Example: He said, "How cold it is!" He exclaimed that it was very cold.

Answer 2

Answer:

They exclaimed in amazement that it was a very fierce animal.

Explanation:

When we convert an exclamatory direct speech into indirect speech, we remove ‘How’ or ‘What’ and put ‘very’ in front of the adjective. For example, the exclamatory sentence ‘How intelligent she is!’ will change into ‘She is very intelligent.’

The rest of the tense and pronoun conversion are applied as per the rules of the direct-indirect speech.