AP Police Constable previous year question
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. The captain said to the soldiers, " Don't fire until I give you the signal".
Asked in AP Police Constable Prelims: 2016 (06 Nov 2016) · English
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Correct answer: (B) The captain ordered the soldiers not to fire until he gave them the signal
The correct answer is option 2).
To change the sentence from direct to indirect narration, we need to make the
following changes:
We make changes in the tense of reported speech only if the reporting verb is in
the past tense.
Here reporting verb, i.e. ‘said’ is in the past tense; therefore, tense of reported
speech will be changed.
Given sentence is an example of an imperative sentence , and it is a command.
The verb in the reporting verb, i.e. "said" will be changed to "ordered".
"Not to" is used in place of inverted commas.
First-person "I" i n the reported speech will be changed to the subject of the
Reporting verb, in this case, will be changed to "he".
Therefore, the correct sentence is “The captain ordered the soldiers not to fire until he
gave them the signal”.
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