6. Choose the correct options to fill in the blanks to complete the narration
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Arthur: Kevin, are you going to the hospital again ? Is your mother okay?
Kevin : My mother is now better. Thank God, she has been back to normal since
Friday
Arthur asked Kevin (a)
He also asked him whether his mother
was okay. Kevin replied that (b)
and thanking God, the boy said that
(c)
(a) () if he had gone to the hospital again
(1) if he was going to the hospital again
(ii) if he will be going to the hospital again
(iv) if he is going to the hospital again
(1) his mother was better now
(it) his mother had been better now
(H) his mother is better now
(iv) his mother has been better now
(c) (i) his mother will be back to normal by Friday
(H) his mother has been back to normal since Friday
(1) his mother had been back to normal since Friday
(iv) his mother have been back to normal by Friday
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b)
Answers
Arthur: Kevin, are you going to the hospital again ? Is your mother okay?
Kevin : My mother is now better. Thank God, she has been back to normal since Friday
Arthur asked Kevin (a) _______________ He also asked him whether his mother was okay. Kevin replied that (b) _________________and thanking God, the boy said that (c)____________
ANSWER:
a) if he was going to the hospital again
b) his mother was better now
c) his mother had been back to normal since Friday
Answer:
Arthur asked Kevin (a) if he was going to the hospital again. He also asked him whether his mother was okay. Kevin replied that (b) his mother was better now and thanking God, the boy said that (c) his mother had been back to normal since Friday.
Explanation:
The first sentence was a Helping-Verb Interrogative Case. While reporting such cases we apply the following rules:
1. Use conjunction 'if' or 'whether' to join the reporting verb with the speech to be reported.
2. Convert the interrogative into statement.
3. Change the pronouns and tenses as per the reported speech rules.
The second and third sentences were statements. 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.