Textual Grammar of The Night Train at Deoli
By PKG SIR
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.
10.
C.Change the voice.
1.The guard blew his whistle.
2.I would have leave the plains.
3.I don't want a busket.
4.
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