Direct & Indirect Speech

QUESTION 141

seema said to reena,“You should visit shimla in the summer.”

A Seema tells to reena that she should visite shimla in the summer.
D Seema ordered to reena to visite shimla in the summer.
C Seema suggested to reena that she should visite shimla in the summer.
B Seema said reena that you should visite shimla in the summer.

QUESTION 142

Choose the correct indirect form of the sentence.The man said, “Let me have the first chance.”

C The man desired that he had the first chance.
A The man proposed that he should have the first chance.
B The man asked to have the first chance.
D The man claimed that he had the first chance.

QUESTION 143

Choose the correct transformation from assertive to interrogative :We should not waste time in this fruitless occupation.

D Why would we waste time in this fruitless occupation ?
A What should we do of this fruitless occupation ?
B Why will we waste time in this fruitless occupation ?
C Why should we waste time in this fruitless occupation ?

QUESTION 144

Change the following into indirect speech by choosing correct alternative.Our teacher said to us,“sugar dissolves in water”.

B Our teacher told us that sugar has dissolved in water.
D Our teacher told us that sugar dissolves in water.
A Our teacher told us that sugar dissolved in water.
C Our teacher said to us that sugar dissolves in water.

QUESTION 145

Choose the most appropriate reported form of the sentence from the given options :“Who is going to live in the big house ?” asked Annu.

D Annu asked who has been living in the big house.
A Annu asked who will have to live in the big house.
B Annu asked who was going to live in the big house.
C Annu asked who will be living in the big house.

QUESTION 146

Choose the most appropriate optjon for the reported form of the given sentence:“Read it for yourself if you don’t believe what I say”, he told me.

A He suggested that I read it since I didn’t believe what he said.
D He asked me to read it himself if I was not ready to believe.
C He told me to read it for myself if I didn’t believe what he said.
B He told me to read it as I didn’t believe what he said.

QUESTION 147

Select from the given options the sentence which correctly transforms the following Direct speech sentence in reported speech. Sentence: “Please, could you tell me the answer?”, he said,

B He said that please could I tell him the answer.
A He asked me to tell him the answer.
D He asked me please could I tell him the answer.
C He requested if I could tell him the answer.

QUESTION 148

O that I were a beauty queen!Transform the sentence into an assertive sentence by choosing the most appropriate option.

D Alas, I were a beauty queen !
C I am not so beautiful to become a beauty queen.
B I wish I were a beauty queen.
A Why would I not want to be a beauty queen ?

QUESTION 149

Choose the correct assertive form of the following sentence from the options below :How cold the weather is !

B The weather isn’t hot.
A The weather is not cold.
D Never was the weather so cold.
C The weather is very cold.

QUESTION 150

Choose the correct indirect speech of the following sentence from the given options -He said,“ They are in the class.”

C He said that they had been in class.
D He says that they are in the class.
B He says that they are in the class.
A He said that they were in the class.

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