Md Lokman Meah

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2. Md Lokman Meah
Headmaster
Latifa Siddiqui Girls High School
Subject: English
Class : Nine-Ten
Grammar: Narration
Time : 50 minutes

4. To days lesson is
Narration
(optative)

5. Rules of Optative Sentence.
Wish or pray is used instead of
reporting verb + that is used at the place of
inverted comma + subject of
reported speech + may/might + last part of the
reported speech from the verb.

6. • Direct : The teacher said to the student, ”May you come
round soon.”
• Indirect : The teacher wished that the student might come
round soon.
• Direct : Father said to his son, ”May you pass the examination.
• Indirect : Father prayed for his son that he might pass the
examination.
• Direct : They said, ”Long live our president.”
• Indirect : They wished that their president might live long.

7. Now change the sentences-
• Mother said to me,”May you live long.”
• The president said,”May Bangladesh live long.”
• The dervish said to me,”May you shine in life.”
• The woman said to his son,”May you be
happy.”

8. Home work
• The beggar said to the man,”Let me meal.”
• The prisoner said to the judge,”Let me see my
mother.”
• The man said to me,”May God bless yoy. “
• They said,”May bangla desh prosper day by
day.

9. Thank you all
for giving co operation