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মো. আব্দুল কাদের
প্রভাষক
দইখাওয়া আদর্শ কলেজ, লালমনিরহাট
Rules on passage
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Rule-1: Reported speech এর মধ্যে কোনো ব্যক্তি বা প্রাণীর নাম ধরে ডাকার ব্যবহার থাকলে তা reporting verb এর সঙ্গে সংযুক্ত হবে। যেমন:
a) He said, ‘Sheba, do not quarrel.’
Answer: He forbade Sheba to quarrel.
b) They said, ‘Heru, you will attend the meeting.’
Answer: They said to Heru that he would attend the meeting.
c) Kamal said, ‘Nizam, do you know me?’
Answer: Kamal asked Nizam if he knew him.
d) ‘Where did you go yesterday, Shuli?’ said Apu.
Answer: Apu asked Shuli where she had gone the previous day.
e) She said, ‘Will you go to college, Apurba?’
Answer: She asked Apurba if he would go to college.
Try yourself
a) I said, ‘Riku, you will come to Dhaka tomorrow with your friend’.
b) Sumon said, ‘You did not do well in the examination, Razib’.
c) The teacher said, ‘Hassan, you must buy new English book as early as possible’.
d) The mistress of the house said, ‘You need not come here tomorrow, Shuvo’.
e) She said, ‘Nipa, you are a very good, sincere and hardworking girl’.
Rule-2: Reporting verb টি মাঝে বা শেষে থাকলে I indirect করার সময় তাকে sentence-এর শুরুতে নিয়ে আসতে হবে। যেমন:
a) ‘You look a little bit like my mother’, Jerry said to the authoress, ‘Especially in the dark by the fire.’
Answer: Jerry said to the authoress that she looked a little bit like his mother especially in the dark by the fire.
b) ‘Follow my example,’ she said to me, ‘and never eat more than one thing for luncheon.’
Answer: She advised me to follow her example and never to eat more than one thing for luncheon.
c) ‘I have made a terrible mistake,’ said the man, ‘I have forgotten to pay my exam fee’.
Answer: The man said that he had made a terrible mistake and added that he had forgotten to pay his exam fee.
d) ‘You will come to college regularly,’ the teacher said to the students, ‘otherwise, you will not understand it.’
Answer: The teacher said to the students that they would go to college regularly, otherwise, they would not understand it.
Try yourself
a) ‘You have to read English more and more,’ the teacher said to the students, b. ‘Otherwise, you will not cut a good figure in English’.
b) ‘Nazrul is not only the national poet of Bangladesh, father said to his son, ‘But also a rebel poet’.
c) ‘Most of the students of our college are weak in English,‘ she said, ‘they are not sincere enough in English’.