Please help means a lot change into indirect speech
1) the players said, "our captain has injured himself badly."
2) The doctor said to the patient, "Do not smoke anymore."
3) my friend said,"let us meet the captain."
4) "the rain will soon stop and you can go out to play", said the mother
5) the man said to the policeman, "can you show me the way to the station?"

1) The players said that their captain had injured himself badly.

2) The doctor ordered the patient not to smoke anymore.

3) My friend suggested that we should meet the captain.

4) The mother said the rain would soon stop and that we could go out to play.

5) The man asked the policeman if he could show him the way to the station.

Explanation:

The most important thing when transforming reported to indirect speech is the tense shift. We shift to "a backward tense" (Present Simple to Past Simple, Past Simple/Present Perfect to Past Perfect, will to would, can to could etc.)

Also the verb changes depending on the context of the sentence (an order, suggestion, proposal, information etc.)

Note the change in possesive and personal pronouns.

answer: common sense was the pamphlet that thomas paine used to convince reluctant americans to abandon the goal of reconciling with britain and to accept that independence was the only option to preserve their liberty.