Category Archives: Direct & Indirect

Choose the most suitable indirect speech of: She said to him, “Go down stairs.”

A. She told him to go downstairs.
B. She said him to go downstairs.
C. She told him that to go downstairs.
D. She told him to went downstairs

She asked, “What are they doing?” Find the most suitable indirect sentence?

A. She wanted to know what they have been doing.
B. She wanted to know what are doing.
C. She wanted to know what they were doing.
D. She wanted to know that what they were doing.

Choose the most suitable indirect form of the sentence: He said to her, “What a cold day!”

A. He said that it was a cold day.
B. He told her that it was a cold day.
C. He exclaimed sorrowfully that it was a cold day.
D. He exclaimed that it was a very cold day.

Find the correct indirect sentence: He said, “let us wait for the award.”

A. He asked them to wait for the award
B. He suggested that they should wait for the award
C. He told them to wait for the award
D. He proposed that they should wait for the award

What the reported speech is of: She said, “I shall be taking the test.”?

A. She said that she will be taking the test
B. She said that she should be taking the test
C. She said that she would be taking the test
D. She said, she would be taking the test

Convert to Indirect from: She said “Go upstairs”?

A. She told me to go upstairs
B. She said me to upstairs
C. She told me that go upstairs
D. She told me to went upstairs

He asked me, “Did you see that car?” Find the correct indirect sentence?

A. He asked me if he had seen that car.
B. He asked me if I had seen that car.
C. He asked me I had seen that car.
D. He told me if I had seen that car.

Change the narration: Kiran said to Sana, “let us go out for a walk”?

A. Kiran told Sana to go out for a walk.
B. Kiran told Sana that they must go out for a walk.
C. Kiran urged Sana that they must go out for a walk.
D. Kiran proposed to Sana that they should go out for a walk.

Change the narration: The boy said, “Sir, I am not guilty”?

A. The boy said respectfully that he is not guilty.
B. The boy pleaded with respect that he was not guilty.
C. The boy said with respect that the was not guilty,
D. The boy pleaded that he was not guilty.

Chang the narration: He looked at the boy sternly and asked him, “What did you run away for?”

A. He looked at the boy sternly and enquired of him what did he ran away for.
B. He looked at the boy sternly and asked him that what he had run away with.
C. He looked at the boy sternly and asked him what he had run away for.
D. He looked at the boy sternly and asked him what had made him run away.