Indirect speech - We already offered you our best price.

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Zee10

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Please let me know waht will be "indirect spech" of the following sentence.

"We already offered you our best price and there is no room available for further discounts."
 

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Re: Indirect speech

It depends on who said that sentence.
 

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Re: Indirect speech

I am [STRIKE]asking[/STRIKE] talking to my customer.
Why don't you try first if you really need to put it into indirect speech.

Please note that I have changed your thread title.

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Please tell me what would be "indirect speech" for the following sentence:

"We already offered you our best price, and there is no room available for further discounts."

What do you mean by "indirect"? Do you mean more polite? Try:

- I'm sorry we can't do any better than that. It's already discounted as deeply as we can go.
 

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The indirect speech version of your original, in the context you gave would be:

I told my customer that we had already offered him/her the best price and that there was no more room for further discounts.
 
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