Textual Grammar of The Night Train at Deoli

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Textual Grammar of The Night Train at Deoli

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Grammar Question Bank: The Night Train at Deoli

A. Voice Change

  1. I used to spend my summer vacations in Dehra.
  2. The guard would blow his whistle.
  3. A girl came down the platform, selling baskets.
  4. I always felt sorry for that lonely little platform.
  5. A girl had a shawl thrown across her shoulders.
  6. She saw that I was looking at her intently.
  7. She pretended not to notice.


B. Narration Change

  1. I said, "I don't know why the train stopped at Deoli."
  2. The narrator said, "I will get off the train at Deoli one day."
  3. He said to himself, "What happens in Deoli, behind the station walls?"
  4. I said to the girl, "Are you selling baskets?" (Contextual)
  5. "One day I will spend the day there," I decided.

C. Transformation of Sentences (Simple, Complex, Compound)

  1. Deoli was a small station about thirty miles from Dehra; it marked the beginning of the heavy jungles. (Turn into a Complex sentence)
  2. The train would reach Deoli at about five in the morning, when the station would be dimly lit. (Turn into a Simple sentence)
  3. Nobody got off the train and nobody got in. (Turn into an Affirmative sentence using 'Neither...nor')
  4. Nothing ever happened there. (Turn into an Interrogative sentence)
  5. Her feet were bare and her clothes were old, but she was a young girl. (Turn into a Complex sentence using 'Though')
  6. I decided that one day I would get off the train at Deoli. (Turn into a Simple sentence)
  7. She saw that I was looking at her intently. (Split into two Simple sentences)

D. Degree Change

  1. Deoli was a small station. (Comparative Degree)
  2. The jungle was visible in the faint light of dawn. (Use 'more' for Comparative)
  3. She was a young girl, walking gracefully. (Positive Degree)

E. Join the Sentences

  1. The train stopped there for only ten minutes. Then it rushed on into the forests. (Join using 'Before')
  2. She had a pale skin. It was set off by shiny black hair. (Join using a Relative Clause)
  3. I always felt sorry for the platform. Nobody wanted to visit it. (Join using 'As')


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A. Change the mode of narration:

1) “Do you want a basket?” she asked the narrator.

2) I said,"I don't want a basket."

3)“I have to go to Delhi,” the narrator said.

4)'I will come again,' I said.

5)How should I know? said the man.

6) The narrator said to the station- master, “Do you know the girl who used to sell baskets here?”

7) “There was such a girl here, I remember quite well,” said the tea- stall owner.

8)The narrator asked the tea- stall owner what had happened to her.

9) “All right, give me one.” The narrator said.

10) The girl said that she did not have to go anywhere.

11) The owner of the tea- stall said that she had stopped coming then

12)The narrator said, " I went to Dehra again in the summer. "

13."No,I don't," said the station- master.

14.The narrator thought, " Where did the road go? "

15.The man said, " I have passed through Deoli many times. "


B. Split into two simple sentences : 

1. When the train drew into Deoli station, I looked up and down the platform for signs of the girl.

2. We said nothing for some time but we couldn’t have been more eloquent.

3. As the train gathered speed, I sat brooding in front of the window.

4. I do not know why it stopped at Deoli.

5. I gave her a rupee, hardly daring to touch her fingers.

6. She saw that I was looking at her intently.

7. I felt a tenderness and responsibility for the girl that I had never felt before.

8. She stood by my window for some time and neither of us said anything.

9.I decided that one day I would get off the train at Deoli.



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