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In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect Speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct Speech.
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They said, “Mother, we are not hungry, we shall eat later.”
The given sentence is the direct narration of a simple sentence. Since it is the mother who is being responded here, so, we will change the reporting speech as "they told their mother". The tense of first phrase of the reported speech is simple present which will change to simple past in indirect speech. It means "we are not hungry" will change to "they were not hungry". Please note that the pronoun "they" is a third person pronoun, so it will not be changed and remain same in indirect speech. The part "we shall eat later" will change to "they would eat later". It is because, "we" is a first-person pronoun and it will change according to the subject of the reporting speech which is "they" here. So, "we" will also change to "they". Now, "shall" will change to "would" as it needs to be in accordance with the subject "they". Option A is correct as it adheres to the above rules correctly.
He said angrily to his brother, “Why don’t you do as you are told?”
The given sentence is the direct narration of an interrogative sentence. So, "said to" will change to "asked". The question word "why" will work as conjunction only and will add the reporting and reported speech in indirect narration. The remaining part of the reported speech will be made assertive, i.e. the verb will be kept after the subject. The tense of the reported speech is simple present, so, it will change to simple past in indirect speech. The pronoun "you" is a second person pronoun and it will change to "he" (according to the rule, the second-person pronoun changes according to the object of the reporting speech which is "his brother" in the sentence). Option C adheres to these rules, so, it is the correct answer.
Abdul said, “What a lovely morning for tennis”?
Sentences in which the reported speech starts with the phrases like "what a lovely, how beautiful, what a terrible etc" are called exclamatory sentence. While converting such sentences in indirect speech, such phrase change to "it was very" and then comes the remaining part. Following this rule, the reported speech of the given sentence will change to "it was a very lovely morning for tennis". Also, the reporting verb will change to "exclaimed". Option A is correct as it follows the above rule correctly.
“Where do you live?” asked the stranger.
The given sentence is in interrogative form. To convert such sentences into direct narration, the below rules are followed:
‘Live’ should be changed into ‘lived’ and the only option that goes well with this rule in option A. Hence, option A is the correct answer.
Direction: In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech as your answer.
Vikash said, “Let me go out”.
The word “let” is used to suggest, to propose or to allow something. Below are the rules for changing such sentences in indirect speech:
Below are the rules for changing the pronouns correctly:
I said to him, “How do you know this?”
The spoken sentence is an interrogative sentence. So, "said to" will change to "asked". Inverted commas will be removed and the question word "how" will work as a conjunction in indirect speech. The tense of the reported speech is simple present which will change to simple past in indirect speech. We can see that option D follows above rules; so it is the correct answer.
Common rules to change an interrogative direct speech to indirect speech:
Common rules for converting direct speech to indirect speech:
Vasu said to Nupur, “The train left an hour ago.”
Rules for changing the direct speech into indirect speech are given below:
Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
The commander said to the army, “March forward".
This is an imperative sentence. In such sentences, order, request, advice or negative command is given.
Rules for changing the direct speech into indirect speech are given below:-
Say/Said is changed to ask/asked/ordered/wonder/wondered/enquire of/enquired of etc as per the sense of the sentence.
Inverted commas (" ") are removed.
Tense will remain the same.
Hence, option B is the correct answer.
Geeta said, “I did not do this deliberately.”
Say/Said is changed to ask/asked/wonder/wondered/enquire of/enquired of etc as per the sense of the sentence.
Simple past tense changes to past perfect tense.
First-person pronoun changes according to the subject of reporting speech i.e. 'I' will be changed into 'she'.
Dinesh said, “I want to eat a good mango one of these days."
Here, we can apply the elimination technique. We know that in the given sentence, the reporting verb is in past, so, the reported speech will be in past tense in the indirect speech. So, options A and C are eliminated as they use present tense. We also know that "these" will change to "those" in the indirect speech. So, option D is also eliminated as it uses "these". So, the correct answer is B.
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