1. Rearrange the following sentences to make meaningful sentences.
(a) Friends/Archie/movie/the/asked his / what / of they / thought /
(b) preferred /said/book/had/the/his/friend/he
(c) his/was/same/Ram/answer//always/said/the
2. Read the dialogue given below an report it by filling in the blanks
Traffic police : You are going too fast. You have exceeded the speed limit.
Raena : I am late for my work. Please let me go this time.
Traffic Police : Don’t worry. You have to report at the Police Station only
tomorrow.
The Traffic Police stopped Raena and told her that she was going very fast and that
she (a) ………………………………………………Raena pleaded with the policemen and said
that (b) …………………………………………………the traffic Police asked her not to worry
and said that (c) …………………………………………………………
Answers
Answer :
1. The correct order of the rearranged words in the given sentences are as follows :
(a) Archie asked his friends what they thought of the movie.
(b) He said his friend had preferred the book.
(c) Ram said his answer was always the same.
Word rearrangement exercises help us to practice the correct placement of different parts of speech, namely, noun, pronoun, adjective, determiner, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
2. The given dialogue in reported (indirect) speech is as follows :
The Traffic Police stopped Raena and told her that she was going very fast and that she (a) had exceeded the speed limit. Raena pleaded with the policemen and said that (b) she was late for her work. The Traffic Police asked her not to worry and said that (c) she would have to report at the Police Station the following/next day.
Cambridge English Dictionary defines "indirect speech" as "the act of reporting something that was said, but not using exactly the same words."
Explanation:
you do how many friends