Direct to Indirect Speech
Practice changing direct speech to indirect speech (reported speech) in various contexts
Questions
Directions: Pick out the correct alternative that completes the sentence after change of narration.
She said to me, “Are you going to market?”
She enquired from me
- I am going to market
- I was going to market
- if I was going to market
- if I had been going to the market
Directions: Pick out the correct alternative that completes the sentence after change of narration.
Kerry said to me, “Why did you not change your clothes?”
Kerry asked me
- why I had not changed my clothes.
- why I did not change my clothes.
- why I would not change my clothes.
- why I have not been changing my clothes.
Directions: Pick out the correct alternative that completes the sentence after change of narration.
I said to her, “It was very hot last night”.
I told her
- that it had been very hot the previous night.
- that it was very hot the previous night.
- that it has been very hot the last night.
- that it had been very hot this night.
Directions: Select the correct change of narration.
She said to me, “I am grateful to you for the help you have given."
- She told me that she was grateful to me for the help I had given.
- She told me for the help I have given.
- She thanked to me for the help I have given.
- She said to me for the help I had given.
Directions: Change the narration.
She said to me, “I shall forgive you”.
- She told me that she will forgive me.
- She told me that she was going to forgive me.
- She told me that she will not forgive me.
- She told me that she would forgive me.
Directions: Pick out the correct alternative that completes the sentence after change of narration.
Molly said to me, “Trust in God”.
Molly advised me
- that I should trust in God.
- should trust in God.
- trusted in God.
- trust in God.
Directions: Pick out the correct alternative that completes the sentence after change of narration.
I said to him, “Let us go to school.”
I told him
- that we will go to school.
- that we shall go to school.
- that we would go to school.
- that we should go to school.
Directions: Pick out the correct alternative that completes the sentence after the change of narration.
Nick said to me, “When did you buy this pen?”
Nick asked me _________.
- when I was to buy that pen
- when I would buy that pen
- when I had bought that pen
- when I was buying that pen
Directions: Pick out the correct alternative that completes the sentence after the change of narration.
Ron said, “May God bless you!”
Ron_________.
- exclaimed with wish that God might bless me
- expressed a wish that God might bless me
- asked God to bless me
- shouted with joy to bless me
Directions: Pick out the correct alternative that completes the sentence after change of narration.
My mother said to me, “Do not have so many friends.”
My mother forbade me
- to have so many friends.
- not to have so many friends.
- to have been so many friends.
- to possess so many friends.
Directions: Pick out the correct alternative that completes the sentence after change of narration.
Ray said, “Pay attention to me”.
Ray asked
- pay attention to him.
- paid attention to him.
- having paid attention to him.
- to pay attention to him.
Directions: Select the alternative that completes the sentence after change of narration.
Sally said to me, “Are you meeting me today?”
Sally enquired from me
- whether I am meeting her that day.
- whether I was meeting her today.
- whether I was meeting her that day.
- I was meeting her that day.
Directions: Pick out the correct alternative that completes the sentence after change of narration.
He said, “I am reading my book”.
He
- told that he is reading his book.
- told that he was reading his book.
- said that he was reading his book.
- asked that he was reading his book.
Directions: Pick out the correct alternative that completes the sentence after the change of narration.
He said to me, “You can teach me."
He ________.
- said to me that I can teach him
- told to me that I can teach him
- asked me that I can teach him
- told me that I could teach him
Directions: Pick out the correct alternative that completes the sentence after change of narration.
The father said, “He is a good boy”.
The father
- said that he is a good boy.
- told that he is a good boy.
- said that he was a good boy.
- told that he was a good boy.
Directions: Pick out the correct alternative that completes the sentence after change of narration.
She said to me, “I will see you as soon as possible.”
She told me
- that she sees me as soon as gets a time.
- that she would see me as soon as possible.
- she would saw me whenever she got time.
- that she would have seen me whenever she gets time.
Directions: Pick out the correct alternative that completes the sentence after change of narration.
The saint said, “We are mortals”.
The saint
- said that we are mortals.
- told that we are mortals.
- said that they are mortals.
- told that they are mortals.
Directions: Pick out the correct alternative that completes the sentence after change of narration.
Sherry told me, “do you know where the bank is?"
Sherry asked me
- if I knew where the bank was.
- where is the bank?
- whether I know the bank.
- to know if I will tell her about bank.
Directions: Pick out the correct alternative that completes the sentence after change of narration.
Her father said to her mother, “Excuse the daughter”.
Her father
- requested her mother to excuse the daughter.
- asked her mother to excuse the daughter.
- asked her mother to have excused the daughter.
- asked her mother to have been excused.
Directions: Pick out the correct alternative that completes the sentence after change of narration.
My mother says, “I am not feeling well".
My mother
- says that she was being unwell.
- told that she was not unwell.
- says that she is not feeling well.
- said that she was not feeling well.
Directions: Select the alternative that completes the sentence after change of narration.
Greg asked me, “Have you read that novel?”
Greg asked me
- if he was reading that novel.
- if he had read that novel.
- if I had read that novel.
- if I was reading that novel.
Directions: Select the alternative that completes the sentence after change of narration.
Mother said to us, “Don't quarrel among yourselves.”
Mother
- forbade us to quarrel among ourselves.
- asked us not to quarrel among ourselves.
- asked us that not to quarrel among ourselves.
- asked us to quarrel not among ourselves.
Directions: Pick out the correct alternative that completes the sentence after change of narration.
Ann said Sunny, “What are you doing?”
Ann asked Sunny
- what she will be doing?
- that what she is doing?
- that what she was doing?
- what she was doing.
Directions: Select the alternative that completes the sentence after change of narration.
She said to her maid, “Run and catch the thief”.
She ordered her maid
- ran and catch the thief
- that to run and to catch the thief
- ran and caught the thief
- to run and catch the thief
Directions: Select the alternative that completes the sentence after change of narration.
He said to his friend, “Wait here till father comes.”
He requested his friend
- to wait here till father had come.
- that to wait there till his father came.
- to wait there till father came.
- to wait here until his friend came.