Discussion
Choose the option in which the following sentence has been correctly changed into Indirect Speech.
"Hurry up", he said to his servant, "do not waste time".
Answer: B
The correct version is He ordered his servant to hurry up and not to waste time.
An imperative sentence is reported with a reporting verb that suits its tone, here 'ordered', since a master is giving commands, followed by the to-infinitive: 'to hurry up'. A negative command becomes 'not to' plus the verb: 'not to waste time'.
Option A changes the second command into a past-tense statement ('did not waste time'). Option C makes 'hurried up' a transitive verb with the servant as its object, which is ungrammatical. Option D uses 'advised', which wrongly softens the command, and rephrases it.
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