Changing to Reported Speech

[Thura_Htun]

If I transform this sentence, She said," Don’t the children like the ice-cream? " into the reported speech sentence as follows : She was heard saying that the children didn’t like the ice-cream., is it grammatically correct?

[Torsten]

As far as I’m concerned your sentence is correct. Let’s see what @Alan and @Andrea have to say.

[Andrea]

I would say:

“She said that the children didn’t like the ice-cream.”

[Alan]

The speaker is asking a question and so that has to be indicated in the reported speech -

She wondered whether the children (really) liked the ice cream.