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Direct: The boy said, 'Alas! I have failed.' Indirect form is
AThe boy exclaimed with sorrow that he had failed
BThe boy said sadly that he had failed the exam today
CThe boy told his parents that he had failed the test
DThe boy asked whether he had really failed the exam
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. The boy exclaimed with sorrow that he had failed
1. Exclamatory with sorrow -> 'exclaimed with sorrow that'.
2. Pronoun 'I' becomes 'he'; tense shifts.
3. Hence option A.
_Source: jkchrome.com SSC Direct-Indirect Speech PDF (Mistral OCR), Exclamatory sentence rules_
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