“How cold the tea is!” said Meera.”May I warm it up?” You have, to begin with, Meera exclaimed. ..
Indirect speech is usually used to talk about the past. For this reason, we need to always take a mental step backward through time from the tense used in direct speech sentence. Here are some examples:
Direct Speech – Indirect Speech
Present Continuous -> Past Continuous
Present Simple -> Past Simple
Present Perfect Simple -> Past Perfect Simple
Your sentence would become something like:
- Meera exclaimed how cold the tea was. She asked whether she might warm it up.
