Question

2. The manager said to the tourist, "Where have you come from?"​

Answer 1

Answer:

The manager asked tourist that where had he come from.

Answer 2

Answer:

Narration: It is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience.

Classification: Narration is of two types like Direct Narration and Indirect Narration

1. Direct Speech or Direct Narration: It is the original speech of the speaker without any change in it. It is always written within inverted commas.

2. Indirect Speech or Indirect Narration: It is the transformed speech by someone else who is telling it mixing his/her self-expression within it.

Narration Direct Speech Example: She said to me, “I want the best now.”

Indirect Speech Example: She told me that she wanted the best then.

Direct Speech or Direct Narration has two parts.

Direct Speech Reporting verb (it is not enclosed in quotation marks)

Reported speech (it is enclosed in quotation marks)

Changing narration at a glance

1. Reporting verb

2. Comma and inverted comma

3. Person

4. Verb

5. Adverb

Change of reporting verb

Sentence Reporting verb Comma & inverted comma

1. Assertive (Sub+verb) no need to change that

2. Interrogative (?) asked/inquired if/whether/ wh

3. Imperative (starts with verb/let) told/ordered/advised/requested/forbade/begged/commanded

proposed/suggested

to

that

4. Optative (begins with May) wished/prayed (Allah) that

5. Exclamatory (!) exclaimed with joy/