Direct & Indirect Speech - Practice MCQs for Exams

Direct & Indirect Speech

Direct & Indirect Speech

QUESTION 241

Choose the most appropriate reported form of the given sentence:“Do you realize that the shoes you are wearing aren’t a pair?”, I asked.

A I asked him if he realize thai his shoes were not a pair.
C I asked that was he aware that his shoes aren’t a pair?
B I asked him if he realized that the shoes he was wearing weren’t a pair.
D I told him that his shoes aren’t a pair.

QUESTION 242

Choose the correct interrogative transformation of the given assertive sentence :-It does not matter much though we happen to be late.

B What happens even though we are late ?
D Does it matter much even though we are not late ?
A What though we happen to be late ?
C Does it matter not much even if we happen to be late ?

QUESTION 243

Choose the correct indirect sentence for the following direct sentence -She said, “Who's the best player?”

D She told who is the best player.
C She asked if he was the best player.
A She said who is the best player.
B She asked me who was the best player.

QUESTION 244

Choose the correct indirect speech of the following sentence from the options given below:The teacher said to the boy, “Sit down.”

D The teacher ordered to the boy that sit down.
C The teacher ordered the boy to sit down.
A The teacher said to the boy to sit down.
B The teacher requested that the boy to sit down.

QUESTION 245

Change from Interrogative to Assertive.Can their fame ever fade ?

D Their fame can never fade.
B Their fame will rise.
A Their fame must not fade.
C Their fame will glow.

QUESTION 246

Change from assertive to negative :Everyone makes mistakes.

B There is none who is mistake free.
A Anyone can make mistakes.
D There is no one who does not make mistakes.
C No one is with mistakes.

QUESTION 247

Choose the correct indirect narration of the following sentence :He said, “I bought this new car last month.”

A He said that I bought this new car last month.
B He said that he bought this new car last month.
D He said that he had bought that new car the previous month.
C He said that he had bought this new car the previous month.

QUESTION 248

Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence. “Let us go to the hills for a vacation,” Mother said to us.

C Mother said that should we go to the hills for a vacation.
A Mother suggested that let us go to the hills for a vacation.
D Mother suggested that we should go to the hills for a vacation.
B Mother ordered us to go to the hills for a vacation.

QUESTION 249

The students said. “We want to learn a foreign language.” In Reported Speech the above sentence will beThe students said that

A they want to learn a foreign language
C we want to learn a foreign language
D we wanted to learn a foreign language
B they wanted to learn a foreign language

QUESTION 250

Choose the option that is in the indirect form of the sentence. The doctor said to my father, “Check up your body on a regular basis.”

C The doctor told my mother to take check up his body on a regular basis.
D The doctor ordered my mother to check up his body on a regular basis.
A The doctor told my father check up his body on a regular basis.
B The doctor advised my father to check up his body on a regular basis.

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