Voice/Narration

Let us change the voice (Active to Passive or vice versa)

1. Beginning with "Don't":
  • Don't lean out any part of your limbs.
  • Don't listen to them.
  • Don't spit anywhere.

2. Order/Request/Advice:
  • Always speak the truth.
  • Call in a doctor.
  • March ahead.
  • Go and get it.
  • Stand in the queue.
  • Shut the door.
  • Never mind.
  • Never tell a lie.
  • Plant it anyway.
  • Put up the tent.
  • Take this medicine regularly.
  • Please post this letter for me.
  • Please make some arrangements.

3. Beginning with "One":
  • One could see the shrunken face of a small boy.
  • One should do one's duty.

4. Simple statements or declaration:
  • He had been fed.
  • He lifted him up in his arms.
  • He might never see me again.
  • He set his burden down.
  • He took up his load again.
  • He mumbled something incoherent.
  • He handed the bowl back to the vendor.
  • His mouth could touch the edge of the little bowl.
  • He brought out of his ragged girdle a bit of silver coin.
  • His forehead and cheeks were pitted with the scars of small-pox.
  • He fed it with his own hands, allowed it to sleep at the foot of his bed.
  • I do not ask you.
  • I held him afloat.
  • I shall get some water.
  • I did not beg of you.
  • I lost my normal discretion.
  • I asked for a glass of water.
  • I will give him the bit of silver.
  • I led him away from the bazaar.
  • I want my father, I want my father.
  • I presumed that we had come to his house.
  • I could not keep my colours away from you.
  • I succeeded in securing a seat near the window.
  • I am forced to carry diseases into every creature.
  • I can endure darkness, but your plant needs light every day.
  • She offered me tea.
  • Such music stirred the galaxies.
  • Suresh picked it up and took it home.
  • She thanked me for bringing her son home.
  • The doctors can do nothing.
  • The old man shook his head.
  • The children name an animal.
  • The land must be put to seed.
  • The child turned his face away.
  • The old man pulled aside the quilt.
  • The old man lifted his head slowly.
  • The door was opened by a young woman.
  • The man took him to the sweetmeat shop.
  • They ate it.
  • They ate up all the seed.
  • They threw mud and stone at him.
  • We have eaten our seed.
  • We must respect all life forms.
  • We will not throw this seed away.
  • We were being followed by a small goat.

5. Questions
  • Can you carry this bucket?
  • Can you hold this umbrella?
  • How many will you eat?
  • Shall I watch this TV show?
  • What do you think?
  • What do you think about it?
  • What sweetmeats would you like?
  • Who would eat it?
  • Who will tell us the story?
  • Who will teach us English?
  • Why did you kill the goat?
  • Will you have a ride on the horses?
  • With what shall the land be sown again?
  • Would you like a rainbow-coloured balloon?

6. A few different ones:
  • A tree needs the company of other trees.
  • Each one of us makes an effort to end this evil.
  • Today, compassion is forgotten.
  • Everyone admired the pet.
  • The letter was written in 2007.
  • No one will tolerate such an insult.
  • Your personal details will not be shared.


Let us change the following sentences in indirect speech:

  • “Come, let us have a swim,” I said.
  • “Here it is,” said the vendor.
  • “How many will you eat, old man?” said the vendor.
  • “How very cruel!” I said.
  • “I swear I can give no more this day,” said the passer-by.
  • “I want my father, I want my father” said the child.
  • “I’ll be back next year” I called.
  • “I’ll talk to him,” I said.
  • “Let me see you eat noodles,” said the man.
  • “Listen to that music, child” said the man.
  • “One small bowl is enough,” he said.
  • “Sir, I did not beg of you,” said the old man.
  • “Suresh!” I shouted.
  • “Take it,” said the man.
  • “That is for seed” he replied.
  • “There, my heart... there, my child...” said the old man.
  • “What sweetmeats would you like, child?” he asked.
  • “Why did you kill the goat?” I asked.
  • “Will you have a ride on the horses?” he asked the child.
  • “Would you like a rainbow-coloured balloon?” he asked the child.
  • “Yes” said the old man.
  • “Your grandson?” said the vendor.
  • Earth said, “Alas! Now there is only sand.”
  • Earth said, “Once upon a time forests grew here and the nights were cool.”
  • Hope said, “I shall plant it anyway!”
  • Joy said, “Plant it! It may grow into a tree.”
  • Peace said, “Don’t listen to them.”
  • Snake said, “Oh! You make me laugh!”
  • The old man said to the vendor, “I do not ask you.”
  • Water said, “My rivers ran over you and in them fish played.”
  • “Come, child, come, come on the footpath” the parents asked.

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