11. Read the following conversation and change the underlined sentence into reported
speech:
Policeman: What are you doing in the park?
Ravi: I'm walking my dog in the park.
Policeman asked Ravi
Answers
Here is the correct answer along with explanation:
Policeman asked Ravi what he was doing in the park. Ravi replied that he was walking his dog in the park.
Explanation:
The first sentence was an interrogative case. The reporting verb 'said to' is changed into 'asked', enquired' or 'wanted to know'.When we convert an interrogative sentence starting with wh- word, we don’t add any conjunction such as ‘that’, ‘if’ etc. We just use the wh-word and turn the question into statement. The other tense and pronoun changes are applied as per the reported speech rules.
The second sentence was a statement. When we change the narration of a simple statement, we do the following changes in the given sentence:
1. We connect reporting verb clause with quoted speech (direct speech) using 'that'
2. We change the tense of the quoted speech into the past tense.
3. We change the pronouns according to the subject and object pronouns or nouns.
Answer:
POLICEMAN ASKED RAVI WHAT HE WAS DOING IN THE PARK. RAVI REPLIED THAT HE WAS WALKING HIS DOG IN THE PARK.