Question

Report the following conversation . Sita: mohan ,have you bought my book? Mohan: sorry, i haven't .Sita: please go and bring it now .

Answer 1

Direct conversation :-

Sita: Mohan, have you brought my book?

Mohan: Sorry, I haven't.

Sita: Please go and bring it now.

Reported conversation :-

Sita questioned Mohan if he had brought her book.

Mohan apologised Sita that he hadn't.

Sita requested Mohan to go and bring it then.

SOMETHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

• In changing a direct sentence to a reported speech, the sentence is changed into past tense.

• If already in past tense, it is changed into past participle.

                                                         

Answer 2

Answer:

Conversation in direct speech:

Sita: Mohan ,have you bought my book?

Mohan: Sorry, i haven't .

Sita: Please go and bring it now .

Conversation in indirect or reported speech:

Sita asked Mohan whether he had brought her book.

Mohan apologised Sita that he hadn't.

Sita requested Mohan to go and bring it then.

Explanation:

• In an interrogative sentence, the tense changes in the same way as in an jndirect statement except that the verb said (or any other declarative word used as the reporting verb) is changed into asked, inquired, enquired of , queried, questioned, wanted to know, tried to find out, demanded of and so on.

• An imperative sentence denotes a piece of advice, a command, a request, a suggestion or an entreaty.

• Imperative sentences do not begin with the subject as the subject you is understood and not expressed.