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Narration Rules for Reporting Speech

The document outlines rules for converting direct speech into reported speech, covering various types of sentences including statements, questions, and commands. It provides specific examples for each rule, demonstrating how to change phrases like 'thank you' and 'goodbye' into reported speech. Additionally, it addresses the use of auxiliary verbs and the structure for negative imperatives and suggestions.

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Narration Rules for Reporting Speech

The document outlines rules for converting direct speech into reported speech, covering various types of sentences including statements, questions, and commands. It provides specific examples for each rule, demonstrating how to change phrases like 'thank you' and 'goodbye' into reported speech. Additionally, it addresses the use of auxiliary verbs and the structure for negative imperatives and suggestions.

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Narration cl-4

LECTURE BY JAMILUR REZA SAYED


Rule- Thank you

 Thank you >> thank (according to tense)


 He said to me, “Thank you”
 He thanked me.
Rule- Good Bye

 Good Bye> Reporting Sub +bid/bade+reporting Obj+good bye

 He said, “goodbye friends”


 He bade his friends goodbye.
Rule – Good morning/good evening/
good night

 Reporting sub+ wish/wished+reportingobj+a+good


morning/evening/night

 I said to him,”good morning.”


 I wished him a good morning.
No reporting sub and obj

 “I shall meet you tomorrow”


 The speaker said to the person spoken to that he would meet him the
next day
Interrogative sentence

 Reporting verb >> ask, enquire of, want to know, demand, wonder

প্রশ্ন auxiliary verb দ্বারা শুরু হলে , সেই প্রশ্নের উত্তর “yes/no/”
দ্বারা দেওয়া গেলে, তবে reported speech এর পূর্বে “that ” না বসিয়ে “if/
whether” বসাতে হয়।
Sub+ask/enquire +Obj+if/whether+sub(reported speech )+verb+বাকি
অংশ।

He said to his sister ,”will you go to school?”


He asked his sister if she would go to school.
Wh questions

 Sub+ask+obj+wh word+reported speech (sub)+verb+…

 He said to his father, “what are you doing”


 He asked his father what he was doing?

 She said to me, “who are you and what do you want?”
 She asked me who I was and what I wanted.
Imperative sentence

 Request, Order/command, advised


 To
 Reported speech থেকে শেষ অংশ ।
 Sub+request/order/advised +obj+to+ Reported verb+…ext

 He said to me, “Please give me a glass of water”


 He requested me to give him a glass of water.
Meanign >>
ask,beg,encourage,invite,recommen
d,forbid
 Father said to his sons,”don’t quarrel.”
 Father forbade his sons to quarrel.
Negative imperative

 Reporting verb + not+to+reported verb+….

 The teacher said to the student,”don’t tell a lie”


 The teacher advised the students not to tell a lie
কাউকে সম্বোধন করা হলে

 Adressing+reporting obj+as+যাকে /যাদেরকে সম্বোধন করা হয়েছে সেই


শব্দটি +reporting sub+reporting verb+to +reporting speech এর মূল
ভাব থেকে পর্যন্ত।
 He said to them, “Friends, help me”
 Addressing them as friends, he requested them to help him.
Let+us

 Reporting verb >> propose/suggest+that+they/we+should+reported


verb+…

 He said to me, “let us go for a walk”


 He proposed to me that we should go out for a walk.
Let us

 Sub+propose+obj+gerund+…

 We said to the chairman,”let us drop the matter”


 We proposed the chairman dropping the matter.
Let

 কিন্তু let দ্বারা পরস্তাব অর্থ না বোঝালে reporting verb পরিবর্তন


হয়না।
 That+might+reported verb+…

 Kamal said to me, “Let him say whatever he likes”


 Kamal told me that he might say whatever he liked.

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