Question

Transform the following sentence from interrogative to assertive sentence:
Can I ever forget the way she made me feel?
A. I can forget the way she made me feel.
B. I can never forget the way she made me feel.
C. I shall forget the way she made me feel.
D. I will never forget the way she made me feel.

Answer 1

Hint:Sentences that exhibit interrogative grammatical mood are known as interrogative questions. These are the sentences that include ‘What’, ‘Why’, ‘When’, ‘Whose’, ‘Where’, ‘Whom’ and ‘How’. Assertive sentences declare statements, feelings, opinions or events. They end with a period (.). In this given question, the interrogative sentence is in affirmative mode. According to the rules, when an interrogative sentence is in affirmative mode, they are changed into negative.

Complete answer:
1. We have already discussed the process of transforming an interrogative sentence to an assertive sentence in Hint above.
2. In the sentence ‘Can I ever forget the way she made me feel?’, the word ‘ever’ will be changed to ‘never’. So, the option that will have ‘never’ will be right. Let us look at the options given below.
3. In the first option, ‘I can forget the way she made me feel’, where the sentence is not negative and does not have the word ‘never’ in it. Hence, it can’t be the correct answer.
4. In the second option, ‘I can never forget the way she made me feel’, we have seen the word ‘never’ is used correctly and denotes the negative sentence.
5. In the third option ‘I shall forget the way she made me feel’, the word ‘shall’ is used incorrectly. So, it can’t be a correct option because in the way of conversion, the meaning of the sentence is altered.
6. The fourth option, ‘I will never forget the way she made me feel’ is also not correct. Here, ‘can’ has been changed to ‘will’. But side by side, the tense of the sentence has been changed to future which was not asked.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘B’.

Note:In some interrogative sentences, answers can be received as ‘yes’/’no’. For example, in the sentence: ‘Were you with your friend yesterday?’, the answer is expected to be a ‘yes’ or ‘no’. When such questions are changed into reported speech, the word(s) ‘if’ or ‘whether’ are used. Thus, we can change this as “He asked me if I was with his friend the day before.”