1. Report the following statements which are in the future tense.
(a) 'I will have an early dinner,' the guest said.
(b) “Tell anyone who asks for me that I will be away on business for a week.'
the manager told his assistant.
(c) 'We shall come to see you off at the airport,' my friend said.
(d) 'The children will be coming back from camp tomorrow, the mother said
(e) 'She will be at home now. Shall we give her a call?' I asked.
(f) 'Will
you have another
cup
of coffee?' the waitress asked.
(g) 'It is very late. My friend will have left by the time I get to the station,
Mina said.
(h) 'Will you help me lift this suitcase? It is very heavy, Pooja asked me.
(i) Will anyone who saw the accident on Tank Road please contact the
police.'
(j) 'If you will kindly take a seat, the manager will be with you in a few
minutes,' the secretary said.
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Explanation:
The given sentence is a statement.
According to the rules of narration and reporting, if the reporting verb is in the past tense, the tense of the reported verb is changed into its corresponding past form. The reporting verb in the given sentence, 'said', is in the past form. Therefore, the reported verb, 'cannot' will change into 'could not'. The first person pronoun 'I' will change to third person 'he'.
Thus, in indirect speech the sentence must be,
He said that he could not help me at present because he was himself in difficulty.
Thus option B is the correct answer.
Options A,B,D are incorrect as they do not follow the rules of Narration and Reporting.
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