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The players said, “Hurrah, we are winner!” Change into indirect speech.

The players said, “Hurrah, we are winner!” Change into indirect speech.

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  1. Indirect Speech: The players exclaimed that they were winners.

    Explanation: When the reporting verb is in the past (said) and the direct speech is in the present indefinite tense (simple present tense), then the indirect (reported) speech will change into the past indefinite tense.

    Present Indefinite Tense > Past Indefinite Tense.

    And if the sentence is exclamatory, we use reporting verbs like exclaimed, admired, cried etc based on the sentence.

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