Question

10. Rohtas said," I prefer death to dishonour." (Change the Narration)
a) Rohtas said that he preferred death to dishonour.
b) Rohtas told that he preferred death to dishonour.
c) Rohtas said that he prefers death to dishonour.​

Answer 1

c) Rohtas said that he prefers death to dishonour.

Answer 2

The narration of the above sentence will be:

The narration of the above sentence will be:Rohtas said that he preferred death to dishonour.

• The application here to be used is of conversion from direct speech to indirect speech.
• In this sentence "told" will not be used here because it is not mentioned that he was saying this sentence to someone else.
• So the word "said" is appropriate here.
• As the sentence is in simple present tense, when its narration will be changed, it will convert into simple past tense, thus "preferred" will be used here.
• When the narration of a sentence is changed, the tense changes as per the following conversions:
• Simple present to simple past.
• Present continuous to past continuous.
• Present perfect to past perfect.

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