(Change Direct Speech to Indirect speech and Indirect Speech to Direct speech)
1. Nagesh said, ‘I read this book last week.
2. Rajesh asked, ‘Have you read this book?’
3. Do they go on holiday every summer?
4. She asked me what I was going to do at the weekend.
5. Mark: “My friend Gary has found a new job in the music business.”
6. She said that she hadn't travelled by underground before she came to
London.
7. I said to the teacher, "Please don't give us any homework."
8. They wanted to know, “Why weren’t we allowed to park here last month?”
9. “Would you mind lending me a pencil?”
10. The teacher said to Jenny: “You have to learn your grammar”.
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The given sentence is a statement.
According to the rules of narration and reporting, if the reporting verb is in the past tense, the tense of the reported verb is changed into its corresponding past form. The reporting verb in the given sentence, 'said', is in the past form. Therefore, the reported verb, 'cannot' will change into 'could not'. The first person pronoun 'I' will change to third person 'he'.
Thus, in indirect speech the sentence must be,
He said that he could not help me at present because he was himself in difficulty.
Thus option B is the correct answer.
Options A,B,D are incorrect as they do not follow the rules of Narration and Reporting.
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