Indirect Speech from The Story of Smart Monkey and Dull Crocodile

Direct : “My father is very sick. He has to eat the heart of the monkey. So he will be healthy again.”

Indirect : crocodile said to the monkey that his father was very sick, his father had to eat the heart of the monkey. So,his father would healthy again

Direct : “What’s for?”

Indirect : crocodile asked the monkey what it was for.

Direct : “Because I don’t bring my heart,”

Indirect : The monkey said to the lion that because he didn’t bring his heart.

Direct : “I left it under a tree, near some coconuts in the river bank.”Indirect : The monkey said to the lion that he left it under the tree, near some coconuts in the river bank.

Direct: “Where is your heart?”

Indirect : crocodile asked the monkey where monkey’s heart was.

Direct: “You are foolish”

Indirect : the monkey said to crocodile that crocodile was foolish

Direct : “Now I am free and I have my heart.”

Indirect : the monkey said to crocodile that  he was free and he had his heart then