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Directions For Questions
Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct/indirect) of the given sentence.
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She said, "I am going to the park."
The teacher asked me why I had reached the examination hall so late.
The reporting verb “asked” will be changed to “said to” followed by the object “me”.
Inverted commas will be added.
The tense of the speech will change from the past perfect to the simple past. To make the simple sentence into an interrogative sentence, the verb will be used before the subject.
The pronoun “I” will change to “you”.
Question mark will be added.
The sentence in direct speech will be: The teacher said to me, “Why did you reach the examination hall so late?”
Hence, option C is the correct answer.
The young man said to his father, “Pardon me, sir.”
* The part “pardon” suggests that the person was asking for forgiveness from his father.
Thus, the reporting verb “said” will be changed to “begged of his father”.
* The main verb “pardon” will be joined with the help of the preposition “to”.
* The first person pronoun “me” will change according to the subject (the young man) to “him”.
The sentence in indirect speech will be: The young man begged of his father to pardon him.
Hence, option A is the correct answer.
I said to you, “You should believe her”.
* The reporting verb “said to” will be changed to “told”.
* Inverted commas will be removed and “that” will be used.
* The modal “should” will remain the same.
* The pronouns will remain the same too.
The sentence in indirect speech will be: I told you that you should believe her.
Hence, option D is the correct answer.
I said to you, “He cannot be trusted completely.”
* The reporting verb “said to” will be changed to “told” followed by the object “you”.
* Inverted commas will be removed and “that” will be added.
* Since the reporting verb is in V2 form, the modal “can” will be changed to “could”.
* The pronoun “he” will remain the same.
The sentence in indirect speech will be: I told you that he could not be trusted completely.
You said that you would meet me that day.
The given sentence is in indirect speech and needs to be converted into direct speech.
I asked the carpenter how long he would take to polish my furniture.
* The reporting verb “asked” will be changed to “said to” followed by the object “carpenter”.
* Inverted commas will be inserted.
* Change the modal “would” to “will” in the direct speech. The speech will begin with the question word “how long”.
* The pronoun “he” will change to “you”.
* Question mark will be added.
The sentence in direct speech will be: I said to carpenter, “How long will you take to polish my furniture?”
Hence, option B is the correct answer.
The given sentence is of direct speech. Follow the rules given below to change it to indirect speech:
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