EXERCISE 9
Change the following sentences in indirect speech:
1.”What a pleasant evening! Shall we go for a walk?” said Sudhir to his friends.
2. “How stuffy it’s here! Let’s go and sit in the garden.” Prema said to her friends.
3. “How nice of you to have come!” my friend said to me.
4. My friend said to me, “How persuasively your lawyer argued the case!”
5. “What a pity you did not come to the party!” my friend said to me.
6. “What a lazy girl you are! flow shabbily you have done your work !” the teacher said to Renuka.
7.-May God bless you!” said the old man to the boy.
8. “Alas ! what shall I do now ?” cried the traveller. “Who will show me the way in ‘ this jungle?
ANSWERS:
1. Sudhir exclaimed that it was a pleasant evening and suggested to his friends that they should go for a walk.
2. Prema exclaimed that it was very stuffy there and proposed to her friends that they should go and sit in the garden.
3. My friend told me that it was very nice of me to have come.
4. My friend told me that my lawyer had argued the case very persuasively.
5. My friend exclaimed that it was a pity I had not come to the party.
6. The teacher rebuked Renuka, calling her a lazy girl, and said that she had done her work very shabbily.
7. The old man wished that God might bless the boy.
8. The traveller wondered sorrowfully what he should do then and who would show him the way in that jungle.
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EXERCISE 10
Change of narration in the following sentences:
1.I said, “How sad he is!”
2. They said, “Alas! We have missed the train.”
3. The blind man said, “May God help him!”
4. I said to you, “May you get a good post.”
5. The old woman said, “Alas! How sinful I have been!”
6. She said, “Hurrah! 1 have stood first.”
7. The .old man said, “Alas! My son is dead.”
8. The captain said, “Bravo! You have done well.”
9. She said, “What a nice book!”
10. She said, “How foolish I have been!”
ANSWERS:
1. I exclaimed with sorrow that he was very sad.
2. They exclaimed with sorrow that they had missed the train.
3. The blind man wished that God might help hint.
4. I wished that he might get a good post.
5. The old woman exclaimed with sorrow that she had been very sinful.
6. She exclaimed with joy that she had stood first.
7. The old man exclaimed with sorrow that his son was dead.
8. The captain applauded his team saying that they had done well.
9. She exclaimed that it was a nice book.
10. She exclaimed with sorrow that she had been very foolish.
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