Q1. [2]
Rahul : It is difficult to fight against peer pressure. Youth easily gets influenced by the lifestyle of its peers.
Radhika : Peer pressure has its benefits as well. Our peers also motivate and inspire us to do better and work hard.
Read the conversation below and complete the passage that follows:
- (a) Rahul said that it was difficult to fight against peer pressure as (a) ___________ . [1]
- (b) Radhika replied that peer pressure had its benefits as well it (b) ___________ . [1]
Previously asked in CBSE board exam
2022 2/1/1 Q5
Generated by claude-sonnet-4-6 · 2026-06-15 07:14 · grounding stimulus
Model Answer
(a) Rahul said that it was difficult to fight against peer pressure as youth easily got influenced by the lifestyle of its peers.
(b) Radhika replied that peer pressure had its benefits as well; it also motivated and inspired them to do better and work hard.
Explanation
- This is a Direct to Indirect Speech (reported speech) transformation task.
- Key changes: present tense → past tense (gets → got, motivate/inspire → motivated/inspired).
- Pronoun shift: our peers → it (referring to peer pressure) / us → them.
- Keep the sentence grammatically continuous with the stem given — do not restart the sentence.
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