important narration for hsc 2023
1. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches.
‘‘Have you learnt your lessons?’’ father said to Arman. ‘‘No. I’ve
forgotten.’’ said he. ‘‘That’s very bad You must be more careful about
your preparation for the examination. By doingso. youcanmakegood
result,’’ said his father. ‘‘Thank you very much for your timely
advice.’’
2. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches.
‘‘Why are the loitering here and there now? Are you in trouble?’’ said
the school teacher. I am loitering because I have none to take care of
me.’’ said the boy. The school teacher said. ‘‘Do you fer hungry?’’
‘‘Yes. I am very hungry now’’ said the boy.
3. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches.
‘‘Whose picture is it?’’ I asked. by ‘‘A little girl’s of course,’’said
Grandmother. ‘‘Can’t you tell?’’ Yes, but did you know the girl?’’
‘‘Yes, I knew her,’’ said Granny, ‘‘But she was a very wicked girl and I
shouldn’t tell you about her.’’
4. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches.
‘‘Why did you stop me? I don’t do anything wrong. did I ?’’ asked Riyad.
‘‘You were driving too fast’’ said the traffic sergeant, giving him a
glare. ‘‘‘‘Now! Show me your driving license.’’
5. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches.
Returning home, my mother said to me, ‘‘Your progress in studies is very
slow. You always move about with a group of your friends. Aren’t you
idling away your time with them? Can’t you be more serious?’’ ‘‘I am
sorry and I will amend myself,’’ I replied.
6. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches.
‘‘My sons’’ Said he. ‘‘A great treasure lies hidden in the estate I am
about to leave you.’’ ‘‘Where is it hidden?’’ Said the sons. ‘‘I am
about to tell you.’’ Said the old man. ‘‘But you must dig the land for
it.’’
7. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches.
‘‘How much do you want?’’ said the Mayor. ‘‘A thousand guilders,’’ said
the pied piper. ‘‘All right’’, said the Mayor. ‘‘We’ll pay you a
thousand guilders. When will you set to work?’’ ‘‘Now’’, said the pied
piper.
8. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches.
‘‘Will you buy my hair?’’ asked Della. ‘‘I buy hair,’’ said Madame.
‘‘Take your hat off and let’s have a sight at the looks of it.’’
‘‘Twenty dollars,’’ said Madame, lifting the mass with a practiced hand.
‘‘Give it to me quick,’’ said Della.
9. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches.
‘‘Follow my example,’’ she said as we shook hands, ‘‘and never eat more
than one thing for luncheon.’’ ‘‘I’ll do better than that.’’ I retorted.
‘‘I’ll eat nothing for dinner tonight.’’ ‘‘Humorist’’, she cried gaily,
jumping into a cab.
10. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches.
The teacher asked the students if they had heard the name of Aesop. The
students respectfully replied that they had not and asked the teacher
who he had been. The teacher advised them to listen to his lecture
attentively and they would be able to know about him. He also exclaimed
with wonder that his fables were very interesting and instructive.
11. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches.
‘‘Have you saved something for the future?’’ said the richman. ‘‘No.’’
said the cobbler. ‘‘I am happy with the present and think little about
tomorrow.’’ ‘‘No. that would not do.’’ said the richman. ‘‘I like to see
you above want. Have this money and keep it.’’
12. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches.
The witness told the international crimes tribunal that he had suddenly
heard a gunshot and gone towards the door. He added that he had seen
many Al-Badr men and the members of the Pakistani army on his house
premises. The judge asked him if he had recognized some of the Al-Badr
men. The witness answered that he could recognize one Hamid in his
village who had brought the members of the Pakistani army to the
village.
13. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches.
‘‘Why are you crying? Do you have any problem?’’ asked the passer-by.
‘‘I am crying because I have none to look Lions after me’’, said the
street child.’’Are you hungry?’’ ‘‘Yes,I am.’’ Said the boy.
14. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches.
The old man affectionately told his sons that a great treasure lay
hidden in the estate and he was about to leave them. The sons asked him
where that was hidden. The old man replied that he was about to tell
them but they had to dig for that.
15. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches.
The traveller said to the peasant, ‘‘Can you tell me the way to the
nearest inn?’’ The peasant said.’’Yes, I can. Do you want one in which
you can spend the night? ‘‘I do not wish to stay there, but I only want a
meal.
16. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches.
Rahim said to Hamid, ‘How are you? I went to your hostel yesterday, but
did not find you. Where did you go?’ ‘I went to the station,’ said
Hamid, ‘I had to receive my maternal uncle there.’
17. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches.
‘‘Take the fan’’, said Edna, offering a fan to him. ‘‘Oh, no! Thank you.
It does no good. You have to stop fanning some time and feel all the
more uncomfortable afterward.?
18. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches.
The teacher asked the students if they had heard the name of Aesop. The
students respectfully replied that they had not and asked the teacher
who he had been. The teacher advised them to listen to his lecture
attentively and they would be able to know about him. He also exclaimed
with wonder that his fables were very interesting and instructive.
19. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches.
‘‘Why are your children crying, my daughter?’’ said the Caliph. ‘‘They
have been starving,’’ said the woman. ‘‘Have you none else in the
world?’’ ‘‘My husband died some months ago. He left them neither money
nor any property. So. they are in great distress. They have to starve
sometimes.’’ ‘‘Oh! Let me see. how I can help you?’’ said the Caliph.
20. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches.
The teacher asked. ‘‘Mijan, can you tell me what I am teaching?’’ ‘‘I am
sorry, sir. I cannot follow.’’ ‘‘You cannot because you are not
attentive. Follow me,’’ said the teacher.
