Final answer:
The indirect form of '"How much do you want for it?" said the Mayor.' is 'The Mayor asked how much I wanted for it.' The change is done to report the question rather than quoting it directly and thus turns 'said' into an implied question via 'asked'.
Step-by-step explanation:
The student is asking for the indirect form of the given sentence. Direct and indirect speech is a topic often covered in English classes
In the sentence at hand, "How much do you want for it?" said the Mayor. Mayor is the speaker, and 'How much do you want for it?' is the direct speech.
To convert this into indirect speech, we need to report the question instead of quoting it directly. So the sentence becomes, "The Mayor asked how much I wanted for it". Here, the tense changes to suit the rest of the sentence, note that the original verb, said, transforms into asked implying the question nature.
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