NTT Data Speech and Voices Quiz 1

Explanation - The reported speech of the given sentence is - Ashish asked Ana if she was coming to the party. As the sentence is in interrogative form so we will use asked here and whenever we use ‘asked’ it is followed by ‘if’ in place of ‘that’.

Explanation - The reported speech of the given sentence is - Aman begged me not to do this. Here we use begged for humble request as please is used in sentences.

Explanation - The reported speech of the given sentence is - Adil asked them not to make a noise. Here as per the rule said will change to asked, and the passive voice of ‘dont’ is not to make noise because as per the rule of imperative sentence we are not allowed to use ‘do’ in passive voice.

Explanation - The reported speech of the given sentence is - Avik asked me if my mother had returned from Mumbai. As per the rule of speeches and sentence is in interrogative form, said will change to asked and if will replace ‘that’.

Explanation - The reported speech of the given sentence is - Raman Kumar said that he had bought a new house the previous day. Because -

1. Simple past tense in direct speech changes to past perfect in indirect speech - ‘had bought’.


2. Yesterday in direct speech changed to ‘the last day’ in indirect speech.

Explanation - The passive voice of the given sentence is - A letter was being written by Aashi to her husband. As the structure for past continuous passive is - sub+was/were+being+past participle, so we use being here.

Explanation - The passive voice of the given sentence is - Are others mimicked by you? As the given sentence is in question form, “do” will be changed to “Are” and the structure should be 'Are + object + verb + by + subject.'

Explanation - The passive voice of the given sentence is - Someone has stolen Aman’s watch. In the sentence it is not mentioned who stole the watch so we will use someone as a subject.

Explanation - The passive voice of the given sentence is - A beautiful necklace was given to her. In a sentence the subject is mentioned as someone so we will not use any subject while changing its voice.

Explanation - The passive voice of the given sentence is - This matter should be looked into by the leader.

As here Object is followed by verb and subject. Here, must changes to should to show the imperative form of the sentence, i.e. an order.