Narration - Direct Speech and Indirect Speech Question of 5 March 2022

Question of The Day26-04-2022

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

Ritika said, “Will you entertain the idea of protesting against the minister?”

Answer

Correct Answer : a ) Ritika asked if he would entertain the idea of protesting against the minister.

Explanation :

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

In case of interrogative sentences yes/no answer type, commas and inverted commas are replaced with if/whether.
Reporting verb (said to) is changed to asked/enquired.
Also, to change the interrogative to assertive/simple sentence,
Subject (he) + Verb (would) format is used in indirect speech
When object is missing, then ‘second person pronoun’ in reported speech (you) is changed to I/We/he/she/they etc. (i.e. first or third person)
So, ‘you’ changes to ‘he’ as per ‘Ritika’.
‘Will’ changes to ‘would’.
Complement part (the idea of protesting against the minister) takes no change.

The indirect form is – ‘Ritika asked if he would entertain the idea of protesting against the minister.’

Hence, (a) is the correct answer.