Change into indirect speech:
1. The chief of the soldiers bent down before the king and said, 'Your Majesty, this morning you swore to have me punished if we did not reach the palace before sunset.
2. ' I am powerful but the sun is more powerful, ' he said, ' I would rather be the sun than a king.'
3. 'Why, that rock is more powerful than I am!' said the stonecutter. ' Only a stonecutter would change the rock. How I wish I were a stonecutter.
1. The chief of the soldiers bent down before the king and said, 'Your Majesty, this morning you swore to have me punished if we did not reach the palace before sunset.
2. ' I am powerful but the sun is more powerful, ' he said, ' I would rather be the sun than a king.'
3. 'Why, that rock is more powerful than I am!' said the stonecutter. ' Only a stonecutter would change the rock. How I wish I were a stonecutter.
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1 The chief of the soldiers pleaded to the king and greeted him respectfully that morning he had swore to have him punished if they had not reach the palace before sunset.
2 he said that he was powerful but the sun was more powerful and added that he would rather be the sun than a king.
3the stonecutter exclaimed with surprise that the rock was more powerful than him and added that only a stonecutter would change the rock. He also wished to be a stonecutter.