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Direct and Indirect Speech (Positive and negative questions) · Example: · a) We said to Janet, “Are you leaving the company next month?” · b) We asked Janet if she ...

Narration, Direct and Indirect Speech, Change of Narration of different kinds of English sentences like Interrogative, Imperative, Negative ...

In Negative Sentences, we change Reporting Verb [Said To] into Forbade and then use conjunction TO before the verb of reported speech.

Tom said that he was ill. Tom said that he was n't ill. Reported Speech negative - Present to Past - backshift. Fill in the negative form. “I don’t know Fred.”. Sue said (that) she Fred. “I don´t feel very happy about it.”. Jake said (that) he very happy about it. “I don´t go to a party every Friday.”.

Narration Rules for Interrogative Sentences. Change ‘Said to‘ into asked, questioned, inquired or interrogated. ‘ Question mark (?) ‘ should be changed into ‘ full stop ‘. The sentences will not be in interrogative form in Indirect Speech. This means that a Helping verb is used after the subject.

Reported speech - negatives. Ann said that she wanted coke. Ann said that she didn`t want coke. Tom said that he was ill. Tom said that he wasn't ill.

What is narration?Rules for narration. Direct into indirect speech. Changing of pronoun and tenses. 1st person according to subject 2nd person according to o...

Rules are almost same as in the Simple Imperative except 'not' which we insert in the negative imperative before 'to' while replacing inverted ...

10.10.2016 · I have not done my homework.”. The student respectfully replied to the teacher in negative and told that he had not done his homework. EXERCISE. Change the narration of the following sentences. The father said, ” Bravo ! Well done, my son. “. Her daughter said, ” Alas! I have wasted one year, mother.”.

In the first sentence, I am conveying the activities of David in his (D) own words without changing it; it is called direct speech or we can say reporting speech. In the second sentence, I am using my own words to convey the activities of the speaker (D) to the audience. This we can say indirect speech or reported speech.

In case of negative imperative sentence ‘do not’ in the direct speech changes to ‘not to’ in indirect speech. We can also use ‘forbade/prohibited’ followed by ‘to’. In imperative sentence the reporting verb ‘said’, ‘said to’, ‘told’ changes to advised, command, requested, ordered, etc. depending on the mood of the sentence.

Narration: There are some major rules to change speeches from direct (reporting) to indirect(reported). ... Reporting Interrogative sentences:.

Colette's 911 call of 1993. · What does he look like? · He's Jason Tompson. You don't know that! Could you just send somebody over here? · What is he doing there?

Tom said that he was ill. Tom said that he was n't ill. Reported Speech negative - Present to Past - backshift. Fill in the negative form. “I don’t know Fred.”. Sue said (that) she Fred. “I don´t feel very happy about it.”. Jake said (that) he very happy about it. “I don´t go to a party every Friday.”.

31.12.2013 · In Imperative sentences, reported speech contains a command, order, request, advice or proposal etc. While changing Narration ---- Verb in the reporting speech is changed according to the mood of the reported sentence.

06.07.2021 · Narration rules for Exclamatory sentences. Said + Alas! = exclaimed with sorrow. Said + Hurray! = exclaimed with joy. Said + Fi! Ugh! = exclaimed with despise/disgust. Said + Wow! = exclaimed with joy. Said + Oh! = exclaimed with surprise/regret. The conjunction ‘ that ‘ will replace comma and inverted commas.

If we find the negative sentence in reported speech, we change “say/ say to” into “Prohibit/Forbid” and use “To” instead of comma mark in indirect narration. Dir: Mother said to her son, “Don’t drink colored water.”. Indi: Mather forbade /prohibited her son not to drink colored water.