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