WBBSE 10th Class English Solutions Chapter 5 Narration Change
WBBSE 10th Class English Solutions Chapter 5 Narration Change
West Bengal Board 10th Class English Solutions Chapter 5 Narration Change
WBBSE 10th Class English Solutions
WORKED-OUT TEXTUAL EXAMPLES
Change the mode of narration of the following sentences:
Father’s Help
1. At nine o’clock, Swaminathan wailed, “I have a headache.”
Ans. At nine o’clock, Swaminathan wailed that he had a headache.
2. Father said to him, “Have you no school today?”
Ans. Father asked him whether he had no school that day.
3. “Headache”, Swami replied.
Ans. Swami replied that he had a headache.
4. Father said to Swami, “Nonsense! Dress up and go.”
Ans. Father rejected Swami’s excuse as nonsense and ordered him to dress up and go.
5. Father answered, “You’ll have to. It is your own fault.”
Ans. Father answered that he would have to do it for it was his own fault.
6. Swami said, “What will the teacher think if I go so late?”
Ans. Swami asked what the teacher would think if he went so late.
7. Father said to Swami, “Tell him you had a headache and so you are late.”
Ans. Father ordered Swami to tell him (the teacher) that he had had a headache and so he was late.
8. Swaminathan replied, “He will scold me if I say so.”
Ans. Swaminathan replied that he would scold him if he said so.
9. Father said, “Does he always scold the students?”
Ans. Father asked whether he always scolded the students.
10. Swami said, “I wouldn’t like to go late to Samuel’s class.”
Ans. Swami said he wouldn’t have liked to go late to Samuel’s class.
11. Father said to Swami, “If he is so angry, why not tell your headmaster about it?”
Ans. Father enquired of Swami that if he (Samuel) was so angry, why he (Swami) did not tell their headmaster about it.
12. Swami replied, “They say that even the headmaster is afraid of him.”
Ans. Swami replied that they said that even the headmaster was afraid of him.
13. Father said, “Yes. Plenty of things.”
Ans. Father confirmed that he had written plenty of things.
14. Swami said, “What has he done, Father?”
Ans. Swami asked his father what he had done.
15. “Oh, you poor man!” Swami thought, “you don’t know what my father has done to you.”
Ans. Swami thought with pity that he (Samuel) was a poor man for he didn’t know what his (Swami’s) father had done to him.
My Own True Family
1. She said, “I have your secret here inside my little bag.”
Ans. She said that she had his (the poet’s) secret there inside her little bag.
2. They said to the poet: “We are the oak-trees and your own true family.”
Ans. They said that they were the oak-trees and the poet’s own true family.
3. They said to the poet: “We are chopped down, we are torn up, you do not blink an eye.”
Ans. They said that they were chopped down, they were torn up, the poet did not blink an eye.
4. They said to the poet : “Unless you make a promise now-now you are going to die.”
Ans. They said that unless the poet made a promise thenthen he was going to die.
5. The oak trees said to the poet, “Whenever you see an oak-tree felled, swear now you will plant two.”
Ans. The oak trees urged the poet to swear to plant two trees whenever he saw an oak-tree felled.
Our Runaway Kite
1. Philippa Leete said, “Was it because we lived on an island?”
Ans. Philippa Leete asked whether it had been because they had lived on an island.
2. Philippa Leete said, “One day there was a grand wind for kiteflying.”
Ans. Philippa Leete said that one day there had been a grand wind for kite-flying.
3. Philippa said, “Our kite had sailed away over to the mainland.”
Ans. Philippa said that their kite had sailed away over to the mainland.
4. “Do you want to know what became of your kite?” he said.
Ans. He asked whether we wanted to know what had become of our kite.
5. Father said, “One day when Dick and Mimi were out in the woods, they discovered the kite on the top of a tree and carried it home.”
Ans. Father said that one day when Dick and Mimi had been out in the woods, they had discovered the kite on the home. top of a tree and had carried it home.
The Cat
1. The author said, “Most people think that the cat is an unintelligent animal, fond of ease and caring little for anything but mice and milk.”
Ans. The author said that most people thought that the cat was an unintelligent animal, fond of ease and caring little for anything but mice and milk.
2. “Ow!” says the guest, “The cat stuck his claws into me!”
Ans. The guest lets out a wail and says that the cat stuck his claws into him.
3. The guest stoops down and strokes the cat, and says, “Poor pussy! Poor pussy!”
Ans. Affectionately calling the cat poor pussy, the guest stooped down and stroked the cat.
4. The delighted family remarks, “Isn’t it sweet of him? Isn’t he intelligent?”
Ans. The delighted family remarks enquiringly whether it is not sweet of him, whether he is not intelligent.
5. The family members say to the guest, “He wants you to give him something to eat.”
Ans. The family members tell the guest, that he wants him to give him something to eat.
6. The cat says to the guest, “Another time, my friend, you won’t be so slow to understand.”
Ans. The cat mockingly says to the guest that another time he won’t be so slow to understand.
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