Question

We wished "long live our president"

Answer 1

Indirect/Reported Speech refers to a dialogue being told to a third person/reporting what happened to a third person.

Example: Sean said,"I am directing a movie." (Direct)

                Sean said that he was directing a movie. (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 is contains an interrogation, then 'said' changes to 'asked'. Punctuation marks other than a full stop (.) cannot be used in indirect/reported speech.

We wished,"Long live our president." (Direct)

They wished that the president might live long. (Indirect)

Answer 2

Question:-

Change to Indirect Speech:

We wished, "Long live our president!"

Answer:-

We wished that our president might live long.

Here,

The sentence is Imperative so it would would be converted with inversion in the sentence.

What is Direct/Indirect Speech ?

Direct Speech: It involves writing the actual words of the speaker within Inverted Commas.

Indirect Speech: It involves changing the words of the speaker by changing the tense to narrate to the some other person.