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.