Exercise 5. Put these sentences into indirect speech:
1. The stranger said to the farmer, "I am completely lost and I am quite scared."
2. The farmer said, "I will show you the way out of the forest if you come with me."
3. The captain said to the prince, "Our ship can sail very fast and even if we do not
start till midnight, we will be able to reach England earlier than anyone else."
4. Mr Menon said, "My savings in the bank now exceed ten lakh rupees. I will go back
to my village and settle in a farm house."
5. The youngman said to the judge, "My lord, some time ago I lent this man ten thousand
rupees but he has never paid them back." (...told the judge respectfully that...)
6. I shall go to my boss and say, "Sir, I have tried my best and can do no more."
7. He said, "I regret that the goods I supplied were of an inferior quality."
Answers
Answer:
1.The stranger told the farmer that he was completely lost and was quite scared.
2.The farmer said that he would show him/her the way out of the forest if he/she came with him.
3.The captian told the prince that their ship could sail very fast and even if they did not start till midnight, they would be able to reach England earlier than anyone else.
4.Mr Menon said that his savings in the bank then exceed ten lakh rupees. He would go back to his village and settle in a farmhouse.
5. The young man told the judge respectfully that sometime before he lent that man ten thousand rupees but he had never paid them back.
6. I shall go to my boss and say respectfully that I had tried my best and can do no more.
7.He said that he regretted that the goods he supplied had been of inferior quality.
Answer:
1.The stranger told the farmer that he was completely lost and he was quite scared.
2.The farmer said that he would show him/her the way out of the forest if he/she came with him.
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