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Change the following to indirect speech.
The boy said, "Hurrah! We have won the match." [Intermediate]

A
The boy exclaimed with joy that they won the match.
B
The boy exclaimed with joy that they win the match.
C
The boy exclaimed with joy that they have won the match.
D
The boy exclaimed with joy that they had won the match.
Solution
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Correct option is D. The boy exclaimed with joy that they had won the match.
Exclamatory sentences display emotions. So, to change them into indirect speech some specific words such as exclaimed with joy, exclaimed with sorrow can be used depending upon the sentences.

When a sentence in direct speech is in present perfect tense then we will change the sentence to past perfect tense in indirect speech, given that the reporting verb is in past tense.
Here option D is the correct answer as the sentence is in past perfect tense whereas the rest of the options are incorrect as they are not converted to past perfect tense.
Hurrah was converted to "exclaimed with joy."

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