Direct and indirect

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Activity:
Convert the following statements into indirect speech.
1. He said, “I can swim.”
2. “I will go home soon,” John said to Mary.
3. He said, “I must work hard.”
4. Dechen said to Dorji, “I had been writing letters.”
5. Karma said, “I was writing letters.”
6. He said to me, “What are you doing?”
7. She said, “My father came yesterday.”
8. The girl said, “I have lost my pen.”
9. Dema says, “I went home on Monday.”
10. They said, “A bad carpenter quarrels with his tools.”

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the correct answer is option d. the nature of democracy. on november 19, 1863, president abraham lincoln delivered his famous gettysburg address in gettysburg, pennsylvania. in his speech, rather than focusing on details of the war (soldiers, casualties, aftermath of battle), lincoln invoked the very nature of democracy, that power ultimately comes from the people, when stating, “government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish”. these words mean that democracy is a government by the people (citizens) in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by the people or by their elected representatives for the benefit of all citizens. the survival of democracy in the united states is one of the reasons why this speech so significant today.

the answer is a (apex)