Q 23 My brother said to me. I will be late for dinner today." (A) My brother said to me that I would be late for dinner that day. ve) My brother told me that he would be late for dinner that day. (C) My brother said that she would be late for dinner that day. (D) My brother told me that he will be late for dinner today.
Answers
Answer:
b is correct
My brother told me that he would be late for dinner that day.
The correct answer is:
b. My brother told me that he would be late for dinner that day.
Explanation:
Indirect sentences are also called reported speech in English.
As the name suggests reporting, the sentence has the basic structure of a third person narration. The sentence reflects the narration of a third person who is not the speaker or the person who is saying or doing the worl but a person who is dictating the work of the narrator.
It is easy to change a direct speech to indirect speech. Just following a few steps the conversion is really easy.
- Remember that always in indirect speech the tense changes from the original sentence.
Here, in this above sentence today becomes that day.
- The air quotes are removed in indirect speech pattern.
- The words change a little, but it is not always necessary.
For eg: The above sentence has said to me in thr original direct speech. when it gets converted it changes to told me that.
- A few prepositions are added, for forming one complex sentence together like, that.
- The grammer changes, and the sentence becomes from first person to third person.
- The determiners positions change.