Question

Do as directed-
a. The best way to learn musical instrument is to find the enthusiastic teacher.
(Insert the appropriate articles wherever necessary)
b. He wanted to look _____the beautiful girl ____ the platform. (Fill in the blanks with proper prepositions)
c. “What do you want?” he said to her. “Give me a glass of water”, said she.
(Change into indirect speech)

Answer 1

Hint: Let’s focus on the uses of the following-
Articles are used to modify nouns by specifying them.
Prepositions are used to indicate the positions of nouns and pronouns.
Indirect speech involves requoting the wordings of direct speech without any quotation marks.

Complete answer:
As given in the hint, let’s focus on the given parts of speech-
Indefinite articles refer to ‘a’ and ‘an’. ‘a’ is used to specify a single common noun, whereas ‘an’ is used to specify a single common noun whose first letter is a vowel.
Let’s look at the question: The two given nouns are ‘musical instrument’ and ‘enthusiastic teacher’. Hence, we need to modify these nouns by placing an article before them.

The correct answer- The best way to learn a musical instrument is to find an enthusiastic teacher.
Prepositions are used to denote the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to something else.
Let’s look at the question: We use ‘at’ when we are directing something towards another person and we use ‘on’ to indicate the position of someone on something.
The correct answer- He wanted to look at the beautiful girl on the platform.
Whenever we change a sentence from direct speech to indirect speech, we need to keep some points in mind-
The quotation marks are removed.
The tense of the verb changes into the past tense form.
The correct answer- He asked her what she wanted. She ordered him to give her a glass of water.

Note: You should be aware of the rules and functions of each part of speech.