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Direct and Indirect Speech

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that converts the given statement into indirect speech.

"Would you like some coffee?", he asked her.

  1. He asked her if she would like to have some coffee.
  2. He asked her if she would liked some coffee.
  3. He asked her if she likes some coffee.
  4. He asked her if she like coffee.
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that converts the given statement into indirect speech.

"Has it been raining all night?", Grandma said to Sunil.

  1. Grandma asked Sunil if it had been raining all night.
  2. Grandma asked Sunil if it was raining all night.
  3. Grandma asked Sunil if it has raining all night.
  4. Grandma asked Sunil if has been raining all night.
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Change the narration.

"How much chocolate do you eat every day?", the dentist asked the little boy.

  1. The dentist asked the boy how much chocolate will he eat every day.
  2. The dentist asked the boy how much chocolate he eats every day.
  3. The dentist asked the little boy how much chocolate he ate every day.
  4. How much chocolate he eats every day asked the dentist to little boy.
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Convert the given statement into indirect speech.

He said, "I am a teacher."

  1. He said he is a teacher.
  2. He said that he was a teacher.
  3. He said that he is a teacher
  4. He says he is a teacher.
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Convert the given statement into indirect speech.

He said, "I have written."

  1. He said that he had written.
  2. He said that he wrote.
  3. He said that he has written.
  4. He says that he had written.
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Change the narration.

He said, "I have been writing."

  1. He said that he has been writing.
  2. He said that he was writing.
  3. He said that he had been writing.
  4. He says that he was writing.
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that converts the given statement into indirect speech.

He says, "I am happy".

  1. He says that he is happy.
  2. He said that he is being happy.
  3. He said that he was happy.
  4. He said that he is happy.
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that converts the given statement into indirect speech.

He said, "I will help you".

  1. He said that he would help me.
  2. He said that he will help me.
  3. He said he will help me.
  4. He said he would help me.
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that converts the given statement into indirect speech.

He will say, "I am happy".

  1. He will say that he is happy.
  2. He said that he is happy.
  3. He says he is happy.
  4. He said that he was happy.
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Convert the given statement into indirect speech.

The teacher said to me, "If you work hard, you will pass."

  1. The teacher said to me that if I work hard, I will pass.
  2. The teacher said to me if I work hard, I will pass.
  3. The teacher told me that if I worked hard, I would pass.
  4. The teacher said if I worked hard, I would pass.
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that converts the given statement into indirect speech.
He said, "I am busy".

  1. He says that he is busy.
  2. He said that he was busy.
  3. He said that he is busy.
  4. He said he was busy.
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that converts the given statement into indirect speech.

He said to me, "How are you?"

  1. He said how I was.
  2. He asked me how I was.
  3. He asked me how was I.
  4. He said to me how I was.
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that converts the given statement into indirect speech.

"Aren't we meeting this afternoon?", Rita asked her manager.

  1. Rita asked her manager whether they were not meeting that afternoon.
  2. Rita asked her manager whether they are not meeting that afternoon.
  3. Rita asked her manager whether they will not meet that afternoon.
  4. Rita asked her manager whether they were meeting that afternoon.
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that converts the given statement into indirect speech.

"I have no idea how I will reach the examination hall", said the girl.

  1. The girl said that she has no idea how she will reach the examination hall.
  2. The girl said that she had no idea how she would reach the examination hall.
  3. The girl said she had no idea how she would reach the examination hall.
  4. She had no idea how she would reach the examination hall.
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Convert the given statement into indirect speech.

He said, "The PM will lay the foundation stone."

  1. He said that the PM will lay the foundation stone.
  2. He said that the PM would lay the foundation stone.
  3. He told that the PM will lay the foundation stone.
  4. He says that the PM will lay the foundation stone.
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that converts the given statement into indirect speech.

The Magistrate said, "Call the witness".

  1. The Magistrate ordered them to call the witness.
  2. The Magistrate said to call the witness.
  3. The Magistrate asked to call the witness.
  4. The Magistrate requested to call the witness.
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Convert the given statement into indirect speech.

"Didn't we discuss this yesterday?", asked the teacher.

  1. The teacher asked whether they had not discussed that the previous day.
  2. The teacher asked whether they not discussed that the previous day.
  3. The teacher said whether they had not discussed that the previous day.
  4. The teacher asked whether they had not discussed that yesterday.
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that converts the given statement into indirect speech.

"Can you lend me some money?", the old man asked me.

  1. The old man asked me whether I could lend him some money.
  2. The old man asked me if I can lend him some money.
  3. The old man said to me whether I can lend the money.
  4. The old man asked me to lend him some money.
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that converts the given statement into indirect speech.

"Don't ever do that again", said my father.

  1. My father said me not to do this again.
  2. My father said me not to do that again.
  3. My father warned me not to do that again.
  4. My father warned me not to do this again.
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that converts the given statement into indirect speech.

"When will your father return from work?", the old man said to the girl.

  1. The old man asked the girl when her father would return from work.
  2. The old man asked the girl when her father will return from work.
  3. The old man said the girl that when her father would return from work.
  4. The old man enquired from girl when her father would return from work.
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that converts the given statement into indirect speech.

"Where can I find English dictionary?", asked a pupil.

  1. A pupil asked where can I find English dictionary.
  2. A pupil asked where will I find English dictionary.
  3. A pupil asked where I will find the English dictionary.
  4. A pupil asked where he could find English dictionary.
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that converts the given statement into indirect speech.

"I want to see your father urgently", the man said to me.

  1. The man told me that he wanted to see my father urgently.
  2. The man told me that he want to see my father urgently.
  3. The man said he want to see my father urgently.
  4. The man said that he want to see my father urgently.
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that converts the given statement into indirect speech.

"Do you like chocolate or ice cream?", said the shopkeeper to Aruna.

  1. Shopkeeper asked Aruna if she likes chocolate or ice cream.
  2. The shopkeeper asked Aruna whether she liked chocolate or ice cream.
  3. Shopkeeper asked Aruna whether she like chocolate or ice cream.
  4. Shopkeeper asked Aruna that she liked chocolate or ice cream.
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that converts the given statement into indirect speech.

"Are you free this afternoon?", he asked me.

  1. He asked me if I am free this afternoon.
  2. He asked me whether I was free that afternoon.
  3. He asked me whether I am free that afternoon.
  4. He asked me whether I was free this afternoon.
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that converts the given statement into indirect speech.

"Do you live in this colony?", said the stranger to me.

  1. The stranger asked me if I live in this colony.
  2. The stranger asked me that I live in that colony.
  3. The stranger asked me whether I live in that colony.
  4. The stranger asked me whether I lived in that colony.
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