Grammar | MCQs

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Explanation

• The correct answer is: The policeman ordered the violent crowd to stop all that or they would be arrested.
• This is the correct indirect speech equivalent of the original direct speech sentence. The verb "ordered" is used to report the command, and the wording "stop all that" and "they would be arrested" accurately convey the meaning of the original sentence.

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

• The words said within inverted commas are termed as Direct speech.
• It represents the exact words spoken by someone and is often enclosed within quotation marks to distinguish it from the surrounding text.

Explanation

 I said to you, “He should not be trusted.”

میں نے آپ سے کہا، ’’اس پر بھروسہ نہیں کرنا چاہیے۔‘‘

 I told you that he should not be trusted.

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.

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Explanation

she said: she will do well""

change into the narration:   she said that she would do well

In the first speech, there is a quotation – " she said: she will do well"”

As it is quoted directly from someone’s speech " she said that she would do well"

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").