QOTD | English | Active-Passive Voice

Question of The Day02-11-2019

Directions: In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/ Indirect Speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/ Direct Speech.

Rahul said, “My life is more complicated than I want it to be.”

Answer

Correct Answer : b ) Rahul said that his life was more complicated than he wanted it to be.

Explanation :

The given sentence is in Direct Speech.

When a sentence is converted from Direct to Indirect speech, some common rules are followed:

All inverted commas or quotation marks are omitted and the sentence ends with a full stop.
The conjunction ‘that’ is added before the indirect statement.
The pronoun is changed from first person to third person.
When stating a fact, the tense of the auxiliary or the main verb does not change.

In the above sentence, the subject (Rahul) mentions that his life is complicated, which is equivalent to stating a fact. The sentence that completely follows all rules of conversion is sentence B.

Hence, (B) is the correct answer.

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