Change into indirect -
Swapan said to us, "Let us sit together and arrive at a decision."
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Change into indirect -
Swapan said to us, "Let us sit together and arrive at a decision."
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Question -
Swapan said to us, "Let us sit together and arrive at a decision".
Answer -
Swapan suggested us to sit together and arrive at a decision.
Explanation -
Indirect speech or reported speech is referred for a dialogue being said to a third person or in telling what happened to the third person.
For example,
He said "Did you complete your homework"? (direct sentence)
He asked if I completed my homework. (indirect sentence)
In the given example, while writing in indirect/reported form, the sentence changes according to its tense and according to other rules too.
The rules are as follows -
✔️ Some words are changed when converting it into indirect. For example, 'this' changes to 'that', 'today' changes to 'that day', 'yesterday' changes to 'the previous day' etc.
✔️ If the sentence is in form of a question, then the word 'said' is changed to asked.
✔️ The punctuation marks except a full stop (.) isn't used in a sentence with indirect speech.