Teacher: Have you completed your project?
Naresh: No madam, I am still working at it.
Teacher: How long will you take?
Naresh: I shall finish it in three days’ time.
The teacher asked Naresh (i) __________ his project. Naresh replied in the negative and
said that (ii)__________ at it. The teacher again asked Naresh how long (iii)__________
Answers
Answer:
The teacher asked Naresh (i) if he had completed his project. Naresh replied in the negative and said that (ii) he was still working at it. The teacher again asked Naresh how long (iii) he would take. Naresh replied that he would finish it in three days' time.
Explanation:
When we change the narration of a simple statement, we do the following changes in the given sentence:
1. We connect reporting verb clause with quoted speech (direct speech) using 'that'
2. We change the tense of the quoted speech into the past tense.
3. We change the pronouns according to the subject and object pronouns or nouns.
While reporting an interrogative sentence, the reporting verb 'said to' is changed into 'asked', enquired' or 'wanted to know'. When we convert an interrogative sentence starting with wh- word, we don’t add any conjunction such as ‘that’, ‘if’ etc. We just use the wh-word and turn the question into statement. The other tense and pronoun changes are applied as per the reported speech rules.