Change the narrative style by using direct speeches.
“Have you learnt your lessons?” father said to Arman. “No, I've forgotten,” said he. “That's very bad. You must be more careful about your preparation for the examination. By doing so, you can make a good result,” said his father. “Thank you very much for your timely advice. Please keep me in your prayers.” “May you be successful in life.”
Father asked Arman if he (A) had learnt his (A) lessons. Replying negatively Arman said that he had forgotten. Then his father said that that was very bad. He added that he (A) had to be more careful about his (A) preparation for the examination. He further said that he (A) could make a good result by doing so. At this, Arman thanked his father very much for his (F) timely advice and requested his father to keep him (A) in his (F) prayers. His father prayed that he (A) might be successful in life.
- Change the narrative style by using direct speeches.“What kind of stories did Aesop tell?” asked Anwar. “Fables,” replied Mr. Rahman. “Do you know what fables are?” “No,” replied Anwar. “Well,” continued Mr. Rahman, “Fables are stories with a moral. And Aesop entertained people by telling these stories.”
- She said, "I taught in many schools". What is the indirect speech of the sentence?
- Change the narrative style by using direct speeches."Follow my example," she said as we shook hands. "and never eat more than one thing for luncheon." "I'll do better than that," I retorted. "I'll eat nothing for dinner tonight." "Humorist! you're quite a humorist," she cried gaily, jumping into a cab.
- “He said that he had done the work.” The direct speech is -
- Do you play chess? Make it indirect?
- He said to her, " What do you want." (make it indirect)
- He asked me where I had gone the previous day –– বাক্যটির direct speech হবে-
- “I don't know the way. Do you?" --- Mother said. The indirect speech of the above sentence is
- Use appropriate sentence connectors in the blank spaces of the following passage.There are a good number of reasons why students in Bangladesh fail in English. (a)---, English is a foreign. language. (b)---, students have no good feeling for English. (c)----, teaching a foreign language becomes very difficult when the learners are not mentally prepared to receive it. (d)----, a teacher of English can hardly find out a technique suitable for all. (e)---, they fail to make the language learning interesting. (f)---, the motto of the questions in public examinations inspires memorizing rather than learning the language. (g)--- -, students can be successful in learning English if teachers are trained well. Students should be encouraged to learn four skills of language. The four skills of language are listening, speaking, reading and writing. Every teacher should put emphasis on the four skills of language. (h)---, they should lay importance to communicative approach, (i)---, spontaneous communication of a language helps one learn it easily. (j)---, they should communicate with their friends in English (k) --- they are at school or college. (l)--- -, they can develop this skill by communicating with their parents or siblings. (m)---, they can easily learn English through communicative approach. (n) ---- every student should be involved in communicative approach.
- Which one of the following is a correct sentence?
- Anis said, "Good night, Father" বাক্যটির Indirect speech হবে----
- Change the narrative style by using direct speeches.The teacher said to the boy, "Do you think that honesty is the best policy?" The boy said, "Yes, Sir. I think so."Then learn to be honest from your boyhood," said the teacher. "Thank you, Sir," said the boy. "May Allah grant you a long life," said the teacher to the boy.
- The correct indirect speech if the sentence --- I said to him, "Excuse me,sir."----is-
- The indirect form of- John says, "I shall go there" is------.
- Choose the correct indirect form of following direct form of speech -He said to me, "I saw you long ago".
- Convert into indirect speech : I said to him, 'Why are you working so hard?'
- Indirect speech of - she said, "I was teaching earlier."
- Change the narrationThe boy said, "Let me have a pencil".
- Change the narrative style by using direct speeches.Don Quixote asked Sancho to see those thirty huge giants towering over the plain. He commented that he would do the world a great service if he rid it of such cruel and greedy monsters as those giants always were. Wondering Sancho asked what giants he (Don Quixote) was taking about. Don, his master replied that those were straight before him with the long outstretched arms. With great respect Sancho replied that the standing elements ahead were not giants, those were windmills. And the arms were nothing but the sails which could turn when the wind mills blew to make the mills go.
- Complete the text with suitable prepositions.A sunset marks the end (a) --- the day. It gives us the most enjoyable sight. As the sun goes (b)--, the tree-tops (c)--- the distant horizon are all red (d) ---the rays of the setting sun. The sun gradually sinks down. It now looks like a plate (e) --- gold. The floating patches of cloud along the sky look pink and golden. The red- coloured flash of the sun falls (f) ---the surface of the river and the water takes a golden hue. Then the sun seems to sink (g) --- the horizon. Darkness begins to come down (h) --- the whole earth. Then the cowboy drives his cattle home. The birds return (i)-- - their nests. Soon everything melts (j) ---- deep darkness of the night