Grammar Rules | MCQs

Explanation

• The indirect form of speech for the given sentence "He says, 'I will sit in the garden'" would be: He said that he would sit in the garden.
• In indirect speech, the tense of the reporting verb ("says") is shifted according to the context, and the tense of the reported speech ("I will sit") is usually shifted back one tense from present to past ("I would sit").

Explanation

If the reporting verb is in the past tense, then the modals like will/shall change to would.

Explanation

 he said" Ahmed wrote a novel" 

change into the narration:  he said that Ahmed had written a novel"

In the first speech, there is a quotation – "  he said" Ahmed wrote a novel" ”

As it is quoted directly from someone’s speech "he said that Ahmed had written a novel"

In both ways, I am giving descriptions of a person, i.e. I am narrating something about a person.

Explanation

When changing the narration from direct to indirect speech:

• The past continuous tense "was playing" changes to past perfect continuous "had been playing."
• This shift occurs if the reporting verb is in the present tense ("says").

Explanation

Why were your parents disobeyed by you?

In passive voice, the object (your parents) becomes the subject, and the verb adjusts to match the correct tense and structure.

Explanation

The sentence "Wheat was not sold cheap" is in the passive voice.

As the subject (wheat) is receiving the action rather than performing it.

The focus is on the action, not the doer.

Explanation

It was raining heavily yesterday, so they did not go out.

کل موسلا دھار بارش ہو رہی تھی اس لیے وہ باہر نہیں نکلے۔

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"did not go" effectively communicates that they remained indoors because of the rain.

Explanation

• The sentence should read: "To his horror, he found that he had slept for nearly 24 hours."
• The use of the past perfect tense (had slept) indicates that the action of sleeping started in the past and continued up to the point in the past when he found out how long he had been asleep.

Explanation

The correct answer is: Subject+simple future of the verb 'to do'+base form of the verb.

The Future Simple Tense is formed using the auxiliary verb "will" (or "shall" plus the base form of the main verb. 

The correct structure is:

• Subject + will (or shall) + base form of the verb

For example: I will go, she will study, they will arrive, etc.

Explanation

Ate and eaten are two forms of the irregular verb eat.

1. Ate is the past tense form and
2. eaten is the past participle form.
   

Additional Info

The third-person singular simple present indicative form of "eat" is "eats".

The present participle of "eat" is "eating".

The past participle of " eat" is "eaten".