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    You have to rewrite the sentence using indirect speech.
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  • "What do you want to eat tomorrow?", she asked her son.
    She asked her son what he wanted to eat the next day.
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  • "Do you love birdwatching?" she asks.
    She asked me if I loved birdwatching.
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  • This year is exhausting.
    She said that that year was exhausting./ .... this year is exhausting.
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  • I am running at full speed.
    She said that she was running at full speed.
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  • "Don't do it!" (Subject = She)
    She told me not to do it.
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  • My son has paid for a day at a spa.
    She said that her son had paid for a day at a spa.
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  • I've been a vegetarian for 30 years.
    She said she had been a vegetarian for 30 years.
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  • The watchmaker asked her:” Did you buy this Swiss watch at my place”?
    The watchmaker asked if she had bought that Swiss watch at his place
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  • Change to direct speech: The captain asked the guide when they would get to the coast.
    The captain asked:”When will we get to the coast, guide?”
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  • They wanted to know:” Will we go for a walk if the weather is fine?”
    They wanted to know whether (if) they would go for a walk if the weather was fine.
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  • Change to direct speech: Judy complained that she had already written that essay four times.
    Judy: “I have already written this essay four times.”
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  • A man dies of old age on his 25th birthday. How is this possible?
    He was born on February 29.
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  • There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?
    There aren’t any—it’s a one-story house.
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  • The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
    Darkness
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  • You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?
    All the people on the boat are married.
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  • I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
    Your breath
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