It was announced,“the finalist will be chosen after a series of all day group personal interviews.”
What is the indirect narration of the above sentence?
It was announced that the finalist would be chosen after a series of all-day group personal interviews.
What is a “group personal interview”?
I am confused about “group personal interview.”
Dozy:
From the above question and solution it can be infer that in direct narration reporting verb and reported verb both can be in passive form. correct?
When you read “It was announced/said/etc…”, you usually expect it to be followed by indirect reporting of speech rather than a direct quote. I find the original sentence slightly awkward in this respect, though I would not say it is actually wrong.* Opinions may vary. The verbs inside the quote marks can be absolutely anything, since it is literally what the person said.
*apart from the irrelevant spacing typo
It was announced,“the finalist will be chosen after a series of all day group personal interviews.”
The underlined parts can be active or passive. correct?
To make it active you would need to say “X announced”, where X is (normally) the name or description of a person (e.g. “John announced”, “The chairman announced”, or whatever).