English
Narration
Imperative Sentence
Question #7813 (CAT-I)
Select the correct indirect speech of the given sentence:
The teacher said to the monitor, "Distribute these notebooks among the pupils."
A
The teacher requested the monitor to distribute those notebooks among the pupils.
B
The teacher instructed the monitor to distribute those notebooks among the pupils.
C
The teacher instructed the monitor to distribute these notebooks among the pupils.
D
The teacher said to the monitor that distribute those notebooks among the pupils.
• The teacher giving a task to the class monitor is an instruction, so 'instructed' is the best reporting verb.
• The demonstrative pronoun 'these' must change to 'those' in indirect narration.
• The verb becomes the to-infinitive 'to distribute'.
• Hence, option B is correct.