Attempt this Direct and Indirect Speech Conversion Practice Question

Question of The Day05-07-2022

Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given sentence.

“Please let us submit the files today”, Raunak said.

Answer

Correct Answer : a ) Raunak requested to let them submit the files that day.

Explanation :

The given sentence is in direct speech; we need to change it to indirect.

For imperative sentences (which express command, request, suggestion, advice etc.), reporting verb (said) changes to suggested, advised, requested according to the context.
Here, it is a request, so ‘requested’.
today (direct) changes to ‘that day’ in indirect.
Commas and inverted commas are replaced with ‘to + V1/not to + V1 (for negative)’.
In the given sentence, it is ‘to let’ (to + first form of verb i.e. V1).
‘us’ changes to ‘them’ as per the subject ‘Raunak’, who is addressing the whole group.

The indirect form is- ‘Raunak requested to let them submit the files that day.’

Hence, (a) is the correct answer.