Question : Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence. "Put this suitcase in the first-class compartment," said Mr. Dey to the porter.
Option 1: Mr. Dey requested the porter to put that suitcase in the first class compartment.
Option 2: Mr. Dey told the porter to put that suitcase in the first class compartment.
Option 3: Mr. Dey asked the porter to put this suitcase in the first class compartment.
Option 4: Mr. Dey told the porter that he should put that suitcase in the first class compartment.
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Correct Answer: Mr. Dey told the porter to put that suitcase in the first class compartment.
Solution : The correct choice is the second option.
Indirect speech conveys a report of something that was said or written rather than the exact words that were spoken or written.
In the conversion to indirect speech, the steps are as follows:
Therefore, the correct answer would be: "Mr. Dey told the porter to put that suitcase in the first-class compartment."
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Question : Select the correct indirect narration of the given sentence.
Father said to Swami, "Take whatever you like from this drawer."
Option 1: Father said Swami to take whatever you like from this drawer.
Option 2: Father said to Swami to have taken whatever he liked from that drawer.
Option 3: Father told Swami that he can take whatever he likes from the drawer.
Option 4: Father told Swami to take whatever he liked from that drawer.
Question : Select the option that expresses the given sentence in indirect speech. He said to me, “Please pass the salt.”
Option 1: He asked for the salt.
Option 2: He requested me to pass the salt.
Option 3: He requested me that I pass the salt.
Option 4: He advised me that I should pass the salt.
Question : Select the correct indirect form of speech for the given sentence.
Bajrang said, "I went to Chandigarh yesterday."
Option 1: Bajrang said that he had gone to Chandigarh the day before.
Option 2: Bajrang said that he was gone to Chandigarh the day before.
Option 3: Bajrang said that he gone to Chandigarh the day before.
Option 4: Bajrang said that he have gone to Chandigarh the day before.
Question : Select the option that expresses the given sentence in indirect speech.
He said, "These dresses are cheap."
Option 1: He said that those dresses was cheap.
Option 2: He said that these dresses are cheap.
Option 3: He said that these dresses were cheap.
Option 4: He said that those dresses were cheap.
Question : Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
Mother said to him, "How did you get the tickets to the show?"
Option 1: Mother asked him how he had gotten the tickets to the show.
Option 2: Mother asked him that how had he got the tickets to the show.
Option 3: Mother asked him how he got the tickets to the show.
Option 4: Mother asked him that how he get the tickets to the show.
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