Question

My lawyer said i shouldn't anything to the police.
My lawyer advised............

Answer 1

Answer:

My lawyer advised me not to inform anything to the police.

Explanation:

• In English, a sentence transformation refers to the conversion of the type of sentence without affecting the meaning or importance it conveys.

• The given sentence is a piece of advice.

• In an imperative sentence, the verb of the reported speech takes 'to' i.e. to go, to do, etc.

• In the negative sentence, the infinitive (to+ verb) is preceded by the use of 'not'.

• Infinitive always takes the basic form of the verb preceded by to. So, 'shouldn't inform' will change into 'not to inform'.

• In an imperative sentence the reporting verb is changed into request, beg, order, advise, instruct, or forbid etc.

• Here the first-person pronoun 'I' will change into the first-person objective form 'me' in the reported/indirect speech.

Thus, the complete and correct sentence in indirect narration must be,

My lawyer advised me not to inform anything to the police.

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[The above question seems a bit wrong and incomplete, most probably the correct and complete question was-

My lawyer said I shouldn't inform anything to the police.

My lawyer advised             .

Complete the sentence in such a way that the meaning conveys the same as the first sentence.]

Answer 2

The resultant sentence would be as follows after changing the first given sentence in the form of direct speech into indirect as given in the second sentence:

"My lawyer advised me not to say anything to the police."

Direct speech:

• Direct speech is a way of telling someone what you just said or what you would like them to know without going back to the subject.
• Direct speech is often used in formal speech, such as a speech given at a conference.

Indirect speech:

• Indirect speech is the use of an indirect tense to mark the change in subject or direct object.
• For example, instead of saying, “The company sent me the bills to pay,” you might say: “The company sent me the bills.”

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