10) My father said, 'Bring a glass of water” (change the narration)
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My father asked/told me to bring a glass of water.
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The given direct speech sentence was an imperative sentence.
When we change an imperative direct speech or vice versa into indirect speech we do the following changes:
1. Reporting verb is changed according to the request, advice, suggestion, or command tone of the sentence.
2. Linking word 'to' is used to join the quoted speech with the reporting verb. In case the sentence is negative 'not to' is used.
3. The other changes of the tense, time adverbials, and pronouns are the same.
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My father asked/ordered me to bring a glass of water.
Explanation:
- In English, there are two forms of narration. They are,
- Direct speech
- Indirect speech
- In ‘direct speech’, actual words of the speaker are quoted. In indirect speech, the actual words are somewhat changed according to the tenses.
- In order to convert ‘direct to indirect speech’, certain rules have to be followed like removing the ‘quotation marks’, using the word ‘that’, changing pronoun, changing the tense, change in time, and so on.
- From the given sentence, quotation is removed and the tense and pronoun has been changed.
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