3.a. Report the following: a. “You’re late, Uma”, the Principal said. b. Ravi said, “Our garden is full of roses”. c. “I am feeling sick”, the boys says. d. “Is there any park here?”, she asked me. e. “What lovely flowers!” the tourist said
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Answer:
1. The principal told Uma that she was late.
2. Ravi said that their garden was full of roses.
3. The boy said that he was feeling sick.
4. She asked me if there was any park.
5. The tourist exclaimed with joy that fl9wers were very lovely
Answer:
The reported passage is as follows-
Explanation:
a. The principal told Uma that she was late.
b. Ravi said that their garden was full of roses.
c. The boy said that he was feeling sick.
d. She asked me whether there was any park there.
e. She exclaimed to me in wonder that the flowers were very lovely.
The first three are assertive sentences where the outside part is written in past tense, so the reported speech has been changed into past tense too. here the joining word is "that".
The fourth sentence is an interrogative sentence. So, "whether" is used as the joining word and again the reported speech has been written in past tense.
The last sentence is an exclamatory sentence. Here the joining word is "that" and the the reported speech is written in past tense too.