Convert the direct exclamation "What a wonderful concert!" into indirect speech.
Answer
She exclaimed how wonderful the concert had been.
The correct answer is She exclaimed how wonderful the concert had been. — Convert the exclamatory sentence into a statement.
Step-by-step solution
- Recognise it is an exclamation.
- Replace "What a" with "how" in the indirect form.
- Change the tense to past: "has been" → "had been".
- Insert "exclaimed" after the subject.
- Convert the exclamatory sentence into a statement.
Common mistake: Keeping the exclamatory structure in indirect form
Concept tested: Exclamation to reported speech
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