Passage Narration

Описание: 🔁 Passage Narration (Definition)

Passage narration means changing a paragraph written in Direct Speech into Indirect (Reported) Speech without changing the meaning.

🧭 STEP-BY-STEP RULES

✅ STEP 1: Read the whole passage carefully

Understand who is speaking

Identify:

Speaker

Listener

Tense

Mood (statement, question, order, request)

📌 Do not narrate sentence by sentence blindly.

✅ STEP 2: Change the reporting verb

Choose correct reporting verbs according to the sentence type:

Direct SpeechReporting VerbSaidsaid / toldAskedasked / inquiredOrderedordered / commandedRequestedrequested / beggedAdvisedadvisedExclaimedexclaimed with joy/sorrow

📌 Use told when an object (person) is mentioned.

✅ STEP 3: Change pronouns

Change pronouns according to sense:

DirectIndirectI / wehe / she / theyYouhe / she / IMyhis / herOurtheir

📌 Golden Rule:
First person → subject of reporting verb
Second person → object of reporting verb
Third person → no change

✅ STEP 4: Change tense (if needed)

If the reporting verb is in the past, change tense:

Direct SpeechIndirect SpeechPresentPastPastPast perfectWillWouldCanCouldMayMight

📌 No tense change if:

Reporting verb is present/future

Statement is a universal truth

✅ STEP 5: Change time & place words

DirectIndirectNowthenTodaythat dayYesterdaythe previous dayTomorrowthe next dayHerethereThisthat

✅ STEP 6: Remove quotation marks

Remove “ ”

Use that / if / whether / to where necessary

✅ STEP 7: Join the sentences logically

Avoid repeating “he said”

Combine meaning smoothly

Use connectors like:

that

and

then

also

📘 EXAMPLE (Passage Narration)

Direct Speech:

The teacher said, “I am proud of you. You have done well. Keep it up.”

Step-by-step changes:

said → said

I → he

you → the students

am → was

have done → had done

Indirect Speech:

✔️ The teacher said that he was proud of the students and that they had done well and advised them to keep it up.

📘 Another Example (Question + Statement)

Direct:

Rahim said to Karim, “Where are you going now? I will go with you.”

Indirect:

✔️ Rahim asked Karim where he was going then and said that he would go with him.

🧠 Common Mistakes to Avoid

❌ Narrating line by line
❌ Forgetting pronoun change
❌ Wrong tense change
❌ Repeating “he said that… he said that…”

✨ One-line Exam Tip

Read → Identify → Change verb → Change pronoun → Change tense → Join smoothly

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