Change the narration: They said, "Ooch! There is a cockroach here."

Change the narration: They said, "Ooch! There is a cockroach here."

Explanation

"They exclaimed with disgust that there was a cockroach there."

The original sentence shows an exclamation ("Ooch!") expressing disgust at seeing a cockroach.

In reported speech:

  • The interjection "Ooch!" becomes "exclaimed with disgust"
  • The present tense "is" changes to past tense "was"
  • "Here" changes to "there" (as required in reported speech)
  • The conjunction "that" is added