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Direct to Indirect Speech Practice

Practice converting direct speech to indirect speech (reported speech) with various sentence types including statements, questions, exclamations, and commands.

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Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Change the narration.

''He'll work now'', said Deesa to the planter.

  1. Deesa told the planter that he would work then.
  2. Deesa said to the planter that he would work now.
  3. Deesa said to the planter that he would work then.
  4. Deesa told the planter that he will work now.
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the correct change of narration.

My friend said, ''Alas! My cousin has lost his mother''.

  1. My friend told with sorrow that my cousin has lost his mother.
  2. My friend exclaimed with joy that alas his cousin had lost his mother.
  3. My friend exclaimed with sorrow that his cousin had lost his mother.
  4. My friend told with sorrow that his cousin had been lost his mother.
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the correct change of narration.

He said to me, ''Please help me''.

  1. He requested me to help him.
  2. He said me to help him.
  3. He told me to help him.
  4. He ordered me to help him.
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the correct change of narration.

Ram: Where are you going Sham?
Sham: I am going to the college.
Ram wants to know from Sham, ________

  1. where he is going.
  2. where he was going.
  3. where is he going?
  4. why he is going?
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the correct change of narration.

Teacher: What is your name?

Teacher asked the student _________

  1. what his name is.
  2. what is his name.
  3. what his name is?
  4. what his name was.
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the correct change of narration.

He said to them, ''Do not make a noise.''

  1. He told them that don't make a noise.
  2. He told them not to make noise.
  3. He ordered them not to make a noise.
  4. He asked them not to make a noise.
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the correct change of narration.

Tom: How are you, Dick?
Dick: I am fine, thank you.
Tom wanted to ask Dick _________

  1. how is he.
  2. how was he?
  3. how he was feeling?
  4. how he was.
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the correct change of narration.

Ram said, ''What a beautiful scene!''

  1. Ram said that what a beautiful scene it was.
  2. Ram wondered that it was a beautiful scene.
  3. Ram exclaimed what a beautiful scene it was.
  4. Ram exclaimed that it was a very beautiful scene.
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the correct change of narration.

He said, ''I must go next week.''

  1. He said that he must go next week.
  2. He said that he must go the following week.
  3. He said that he would have to go the following week.
  4. He said that he was to go following week.
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the correct change of narration.

He said, ''Will you listen to such a man?''

  1. He asked them will you listen to such a man.
  2. He asked them are you listening to such a man.
  3. He asked them whether they would listen to such a man.
  4. He asked them whether they will listen to such a man.
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Change the narration.

He said, ''I have my own choice."

  1. He told that he had his own choice.
  2. He said that he had his own choice.
  3. He said that he have his own choice.
  4. He told that I had my own choice.
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the correct change of narration.

My father said to me, ''Avoid bad company.''

  1. My father said to me to avoid bad company.
  2. My father said me to avoid bad company.
  3. My father asked me to avoid bad company.
  4. My father advised me to avoid bad company.
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the correct change of narration.

The father said to his son, ''Honesty is the best policy.''

  1. The father advised his son that honesty is the best policy.
  2. The father advised his son that honesty was the best policy.
  3. The father said to his son that honesty is the best policy.
  4. The father told his son that honesty is the best policy.
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the correct change of narration.

''No, thank you'', I replied, ''I do not need a new suit.''

  1. I thanked him, but I replied that I didn't need a new suit.
  2. I replied that I didn't need a new suit.
  3. I replied thankfully that I do not need a new suit.
  4. I asked thankfully that I didn't need a new suit.
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the correct change of narration.

The boys said, ''Hurrah! We have won the game.''

  1. The boys asked with joy that they have won the game.
  2. The boys exclaimed with joy that they had won the game.
  3. The boys told with joy that they had won the game.
  4. The boys told with joy that they have won the game.
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the correct change of narration.

The boy said, ''I am not feeling well.''

  1. The boy said that he was not feeling well.
  2. The boy says that he was not feeling well.
  3. The boy said that he is not feeling well.
  4. The boy told that he was not feeling well.
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the correct change of narration.

He said, ''If it rains tomorrow, I shall not come.''

  1. He said that if it rained the next day, he would not come.
  2. He said that it would rain the next day if he did not come.
  3. He told that if it rains tomorrow, he will not come.
  4. He said that if it rains the next day, he will not come.
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the correct change of narration.

He said to her, ''Are you coming to the party?''

  1. He told her whether she was coming to the party.
  2. He told her if she was coming to the party.
  3. He asked her if she was coming to the party.
  4. He asked her if she will be coming to the party?
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the correct change of narration.

The officer said to the peon, ''Do not leave.''

  1. The officer ordered the peon not to leave.
  2. The officer said to the peon not to leave.
  3. The officer asked the peon that he should not leave.
  4. The officer asked the peon never to leave.
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the correct change of narration.

I said to him, ''Why are you late?''

  1. I said to him why are you late?
  2. I asked him why he was late.
  3. I asked him why you are late?
  4. I told him why he is he late.
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the correct change of narration.

Gopal said to me, ''Earth is a planet."

  1. Gopal told me that Earth is a planet.
  2. Gopal asked me that Earth was a planet.
  3. Gopal told me that Earth was a planet.
  4. Gopal asked me if Earth had been a planet.
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Change the narration.

He said to him, ''May I make you a suit?''

  1. He requested if he make him a suit.
  2. He requested if he might make him a suit.
  3. He asked if he may make him a suit.
  4. He asked if he would make a suit.
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the correct change of narration.

''Please do not go away'', she said.

  1. She said please to her and not go away.
  2. She told me not go away.
  3. She begged that I not go away.
  4. She begged me not to go away.
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Change the narration.

He said, ''Would that I were rich!''

  1. He exclaimed that he had been rich.
  2. He wished that he had been rich.
  3. He told that he would be rich.
  4. He exclaimed that he wanted to be rich.
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Change the narration.

Kiran said to him, ''Why don't you go today?''

  1. Kiran told to him that why he don't go today.
  2. Kiran asked him if he was going that day?
  3. Kiran asked him why he did not go today?
  4. Kiran asked him why he did not go that day.
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