Rules of Narration for Optative Sentences with Examples/ Practice Sets for Competitive exams like SSC SGL/ CHSL/HSSC, UPSSC etc.
What are Optative Sentences ?
The sentences which express wish or desire or pray etc are called Optative sentences. These sentences generally begin with May and end with a mark of Exclamation ( ! ). But sometimes we don’t find the use of May in a sentence, but its hidden meaning is always there. For Example –
- May you live long !
- May God bless you ! etc.
Rules of changing of Narration with Optative Sentences –
- Rule 1 – We change Reporting verbs like say / says/ said in to wish/ wishes/ wished or pray/prays/prayed etc as per the meaning in the reported speech.
- Rule 2 – We replace inverted commas ” ” by that .
- Check Rule 3 – In direct speech, the structure is – May + Sub ……..! whereas in indirect speech it is Sub + Might …..
- Rule 4. We replace Mark of Exclamation by Full Stop (.) .
- Rule 5 – In sentences carrying Good Morning, Good Evening, verb said to is changed into – wished
- Rule 6 – Good Bye – Bade good bye
Examples –
She said ,” May God bless you !”
She prayed that God might bless you/ me.
The old woman said,” May you live long!”
The old woman blessed/prayed that you/I might live long.
Practice Set for Optative Sentences –
- Teacher said to me,” May you get success in life !”
- She said to her neighbour,” May you die soon!”
- My friend said, ” May God help you !”
- I said to her,” You be happy in your life !”
- The subject said,” Long live the king !”
- The Prime Minister said,” Long live our Democracy!”
- People said,” God save the nation!”
- I said,” Her soul live in peace !”
Solution –
- Teacher wished that I might get success in life.
- She cursed her neighbour that he/she might die soon.
- My friend prayed that God might help me.
- I wished her that she might be happy in her life.
- The subject prayed that the king might live long.
- The Prime Minister wished that their democracy might live long.
- People prayed that God might save the nation.
- I prayed that her soul might live in peace.
Learn Complete Rules of Narration from here.
She said to him, ” Wish you a very happy birthday.”
She wished him a very happy birthday.
she wished him a very happy birthday
She wished him that a very happy birthday
She prayed him that wish he might a very happy birthday.
There must not be object ( him ) when you use prayed/ wished as reporting verb. Wish must not be here.
She wished him a very happy birthday.
” bravo” said the king” go ahead”
” bravo” saif the king” go ahead”
She said, ‘May you be a doctor’. (report the sentence)
She wished that you might be a doctor.
She prayed that I might be a doctor.
She prayed that you might be a doctor.
she wished that you might be a doctor.
She wished that you might be a doctor.
Very helpful,thank you very much.
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May live long !
He said , ” may terrorism end totally ! “
He prayed that terrorism might end totally.
He said , ” may terrorism end totally ! “
He wished that the terrorism might end totally
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Good morning____
My friend said, “Let us help the poor.”
My friend suggested that we should help the poor.
My friend proposed that we should help the poor
My friend approached me that we should help the poor
My friend suggested that we should help the poor.
I said to my younger brother “I wish you too have wonderful time in abroad”.
I wished my younger brother that I wished you might have a wonderful time abroad.
they said to us ,” may you have à fine journey
They wished that we might have a fine journey.
He said, “would that i were the son of a very rich men”
He wished that he had been the son of a very rich person.
He said to me,”Assalamualikum.”
He wished me assalamvalikum.
She said, “Would that my father were alive! “
She wished that her father had been alive.
He said to me, “Thank you”.
He thanked me.
He thanked me .
He thanked me
He wished me that thank you
He thanked me
He thanked me.
She said her father, ” I wish I were an engineer I would apply for that job. “
The old man said, “Would i were a child again”
Plzz tell me which tense is used here in reported speech
Bravo!you have won the match.
Someone applauded you saying that you had won the match.
He exclaimed with praise that he had won the match
Bravo ! He had won the match
Someone exclaimed with joy that you had won the match.
the boy said,”May i come in?”
The boy wished and asked if he might come in.
The boy request to come in
The boy requested to come in
The boy said ,” Please come in. “
The boy replied with respect to come in
Boy said that he is come
The boy ordered me to come in .
The boy requested to go in.
The boy enquired of if he might come in.
The beggar said,” Would that I were rich”
Ans: ????
The beggar wished that he had been rich.
The beggar wish that he/she might a rich
yes
The beggar wished that he was rich
The beggar wished that he had been rich .
The beggar wished that he had been rich
The beggar said,” Would that he were rich ! “
The beggar wished that he had been rich.
change this into indirect speech
Radio news : A cure for Cancer has been invented
Radio news says that a cure for cancer has been invented.
Thank you
Kanta said,”Welcome,sir!”
Kanta respectfully welcomed her sir.
Kanta greeted welcome to her sir.
he said, “Curse it! Who could have expected such a turn of events”.
He cursed it and asked who could such a turn of events have expected.
Indra said, “If I had been the President of India.”
Indira wished if she were the President of India.
Indra wished that if she had been the president of india.
she says to me “you are good boy in the class”
She tells me that I am a good boy in the class. Article a should be there before good boy.
You said , “had i won the lottery”
You asked if you had won the lottery.
You asked if you had won the lottery.
hello, i have a question what would be the narration of a present perfect and perfect continuous
present perfect tense changes into past perfect tense
present continuous tense changes into past continuous tense
He said to her”may you win the match”
He wished that she might win the match.
He wished her that she might win the match.
She said may you prosper!
She prayed for me I might prosper
Is it right?
She wished/prayed that I/he/she/you might prosper.
She prayed that I might prosper.
I think the word ‘that’ should be required.
she wished that I might prosper.
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optative sentence she said to me.’may you stay happy
She wished/prayed if I might stay happy.
She prayed for me that I might stay happy.
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