Change the narration
1. He said, “Take a look at yourself in the mirror."
2. He said, “Are there any ripe mangoes in the shop?”
3. He said, “This is my engagement ring. Do you like it?
Answers
Answer:
1. He asked me to take a look at myself in the mirror.
2. He asked the shopkeeper if there were any ripe mangoes in the shop.
3. He said that that was his engagement ring and asked me if I liked it.
Explanation:
I. When we change an imperative direct speech or vice versa into indirect speech we do the following changes:
1. Reporting verb is changed according to the request, advice, suggestion, or command tone of the sentence.
2. Linking word 'to' is used to join the quoted speech with the reporting verb. In case the sentence is negative 'not to' is used.
3. The other changes of the tense, time adverbials, and pronouns are the same.
II. This 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.
III. This 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.