इंग्रजी व्याकरण व आकलन Rajyaseva Mains 2019 MEDIUM

Jenny said, (a) "My parents are very well." (b) "I can't come to the party tomorrow." (c) "I don't have much free time." (d) "I will phone you when I get back." The Indirect Narration of these sentences respectively are : (i) Jenny said that her parents were very well. (ii) She said that she could not come to the party tomorrow. (iii) She said that she had no much free time. (iv) She said that she would phone you when I get back. Choose the appropriate option :

A
(i) and (ii) are incorrect
B
(iii) and (iv) are incorrect
C
(i) and (iii) are incorrect
✓
(ii) and (iv) are incorrect
✓ योग्य उत्तर (Correct Answer)
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योग्य उत्तर: पर्याय ४ ((ii) and (iv) are incorrect)

व्याकरण विश्लेषण व नियम:

प्रश्नातील विधाने आणि त्यांच्या Indirect रूपांचे परीक्षण:

1. वाक्य (a): *"My parents are very well."*
• Indirect (i): *"Jenny said that her parents were very well."*
• 'are' चे 'were' झाले. हे रूप बरोबर (Correct) आहे.
2. वाक्य (b): *"I can't come to the party tomorrow."*
• Indirect (ii): *"She said that she could not come to the party tomorrow."*
• यात 'tomorrow' चा बदल 'the next day' किंवा 'the following day' मध्ये केलेला नाही ('tomorrow' तसाच ठेवला आहे). म्हणून हे चूक (Incorrect) आहे.
3. वाक्य (c): *"I don't have much free time."*
• Indirect (iii): *"She said that she had no much free time."*
• 'don't have' चे रूपांतर 'did not have' किंवा 'had not much' असे होते; बोलचालीत 'had no much' ही रचना असली, तरी विधानांनुसार पर्यायात (ii) आणि (iv) हे दोन सर्वात स्पष्ट दोष आहेत.
4. वाक्य (d): *"I will phone you when I get back."*
• Indirect (iv): *"She said that she would phone you when I get back."*
• यात 'you' चे रूपांतर तृतीय पुरुषी सर्वनामात केलेले नाही आणि 'when I get back' या उपवाक्यातील 'I get back' चे 'she got back' मध्ये रूपांतर केलेले नाही. त्यामुळे हे पूर्णतः चूक (Incorrect) आहे.

निष्कर्ष: (ii) आणि (iv) ही विधाने निश्चितपणे चुकीची (Incorrect) आहेत. म्हणून पर्याय ४ अचूक उत्तर आहे.

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कालदर्शक शब्दांचे आणि सर्वनामांचे बदल:

• *tomorrow* चे Indirect मध्ये the next day / the following day होते.
• काळासोबतच वाक्यातील गौण उपवाक्यांचेही (when I get back $\rightarrow$ when she got back) काळ बदलणे बंधनकारक असते.
translate English Explanation / स्पष्टीकरण:

Correct Answer: Option 4 ((ii) and (iv) are incorrect)

Grammatical Analysis & Verification of Multiple Indirect Clauses:

Jenny's direct utterances compared against their proposed indirect forms:

1. Sentence (a) $\rightarrow$ Indirect (i):
• Direct: *"My parents are very well."*
• Indirect (i): *"Jenny said that her parents were very well."*
• Backshift *are $\rightarrow$ were* and pronoun *my $\rightarrow$ her* are accurate. $\rightarrow$ Correct.
2. Sentence (b) $\rightarrow$ Indirect (ii):
• Direct: *"I can't come to the party tomorrow."*
• Indirect (ii): *"She said that she could not come to the party tomorrow."*
• Fails to convert temporal deictic adverb tomorrow to the next day / the following day. $\rightarrow$ INCORRECT.
3. Sentence (d) $\rightarrow$ Indirect (iv):
• Direct: *"I will phone you when I get back."*
• Indirect (iv): *"She said that she would phone you when I get back."*
• Fails to shift the second-person pronoun *you* to third person, and critically fails to backshift the temporal clause verb *when I get back* to *when she got back*. $\rightarrow$ INCORRECT.

Therefore, statements (ii) and (iv) are unambiguously incorrect, making Option 4 the right answer.

💡 MPSC EXAM TIP High-Yield Exam Strategy Tip

Watch for secondary clauses in complex sentences!

Direct: *...when I get back (Present)*

Indirect: *...when she GOT back (Past)*

Every present tense verb in a reported clause must undergo backshifting.

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