Question

Rewrite the following sentence in indirect speech:
Rajni said to her brother, "Don't write in my notebooks."
Rajni forbade her brother _________________.

• A. Not to write in his notebooks
• B. Not to write in her notebooks
• C. To write in his notebooks
• D. To write in her notebooks

Answer 1

The correct option is D To write in her notebooks

The given sentence is a command.

In an imperative sentence, the verb of the reported speech takes 'to' i.e. to go, to do, etc. In the negative sentence the infinitive (to+ verb) is preceded by 'not'.

In the given sentence, the negative sense is provided by 'forbade'. So we need not use 'not' with the infinitive. Infinitive always takes the basic form of the verb preceded by to. So, 'write' will change into 'to write'. The first person pronoun 'my' will change into third person 'her'.

Thus, the complete sentence must be,

Rajni forbade her brother to write in her notebooks.

Thus option D is the correct answer.

Options A,B,C are incorrect as they do not follow the correct grammatical rules.