Question

Moni said to Anjan," Will you water my plants?" (Change the mode of narration)​

Answer 1

Answer:

• Direct Narration:-

☞ Moni said to Anjan,"Will you water my plants?"

• Indirect Narration:-

☞ Moni asked Anjan whether he would water her plants.

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⊙ Note :-

• ✏️ In case of an interrogative sentence, the reporting verb "said/said to" in Direct Narration is changed to "asked" in Indirect Narration and "whether/if" is used as conjunction.

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KNOW MORE :-

★ Types of Narration :-

• ➡️ Direct Narration.

• ➡️ Indirect Narration.

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★ Direct Narration :-

• ➡️ In Direct Narration, the words of the speaker is expressed in the same way that is said by the speaker i.e, with speech marks and using exactly the same words.

• ➡️ The words of the speaker are kept within Inverted Comma (" ") in Direct Narration and there we need to use Comma (,) between the Reporting Verb and Direct Narration.

• ➡️ The verb that introduces the Direct Narration is called Reporting Verb.

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★ Indirect Narration :-

• ➡️ In Indirect Narration, the words of the speaker is expressed without speech marks and without necessarily using the same words, keeping the meaning same.

• ➡️ Unlike Direct Narration, there is the need of using "that" or any necessary conjunction instead of the Comma(,) in Indirect Narration.

• ➡️ There is also needed some changes while changing the speech from Direct Narration to Indirect Narration.