Narration exercises with Answers

• 1. Rakhi says to him, "You must come back home in time."

  1. Rakhi tells him that he has to come come back home in time.
  2. Rakhi tells him that he had to come come back home in time.
  3. Rakhi tells him that he will have to come come back home in time.
  4. Rakhi tells him that he must come come back home in time.

  Answer :

  Option A

• 2. She said, "Well, Rahul, You have done this work."

  1. She told Rahul that you had done this work.
  2. She told Rahul that you had done that work.
  3. She told Rahul that he had done that work.
  4. She told Rahul that he has done that work.

  Answer :

  Option C

  Explanation:

  We can remove "Well", "Okay", "You see" etc from indirect speech.

• 3. Raju said to me, "He worked hard".

  1. Raju told me that he had worked hard.
  2. Raju told me that he has worked hard.
  3. Raju told me that he had been worked hard.
  4. Raju told me that he has been worked hard.

  Answer :

  Option A

• 4. Rohit said to Sunita, "Will you love me."

  1. Rohit asked Sunita if she would love him.
  2. Rohit asked Sunita if you would love me.
  3. Rohit asked Sunita if she will love him.
  4. Rohit asked Sunita if she should love him.

  Answer :

  Option A

• 5. He said to me, "I shall be writing an essay".

  1. He told me that he would have been writing an essay.
  2. He told me that he would be writing an essay.
  3. He told me that he will be writing an essay.
  4. He told me that he shall be writing an essay.

  Answer :

  Option B

• 6. Rahul said, " He was walking."

  1. Rahul said that he had been walking.
  2. Rahul said that he was walking.
  3. Rahul said that he had walking.
  4. Rahul said that he had walked.

  Answer :

  Option A

  Explanation:

  When Reporting verb in past Tense and reported speech is in "Past Continuous sentence" then we change "Past Continuous sentence" to "Past Perfect Continuous".

• 7. The Judge said to inspector, "Call the thieves."

  1. The Judge urged inspector to call the thieves.
  2. The Judge ordered inspector to get the thieves.
  3. The Judge requested inspector to call the thieves.
  4. The Judge ordered inspector to call the thieves.

  Answer :

  Option D

  Explanation:

  Note: In this type of imperative sentences, we do not use "if/whether", instead we use "to" to replace inverted commas.