1. Change the following sentences into indirect speech. a) The teacher said to the students, "Where have you been so long?"
b)She said to the children, "Can you swim?"
c)Rubel said, "What a fool I am!"
d)The poor man said, "Alas! I have lost everything.".
e)I said to him, "May you get GPA-5 in exam."​

The teacher asked the students where they had been so long.

She asked the children whether they could swim.

Rubel said with grief that he was a fool.

The poor main exclaimed with grief that he had lost everything.

I asked him whether he might get GPA-5 in exam.

third person

explanation:

note the usage of names and pronouns, "james" & "the old man". this alone can confirm it as third person, as first person uses "i" and the like, while second person uses "you" and the like.

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anyone who was dealing with communism in soviet union in his time had an ideal picture of equality, freedom, the struggle of the working class for a better future, the success of the aristocracy's overthrow and the emancipation of subjugation.   however, anyone who would go to soviet union to see the functioning of the communist system, would be convinced that it was about sad people, about everyday bad life, about the brutal attitude of communist leaders, about ill obsession to completely exterminate every thought on aristocracy. thus, orwell wanted to show all the absurdity, the brutality of the system, the unbearable rule of suspicious morality, the ignorant people who try to play professionally.

the answers are: b. and e.