Direct & Indirect Speech

61. Choose the most appropriate reported form of the sentence given: “Where will you be tomorrow”, I said “in case I have to meet you?”

B. I said to him where he will be next day in case I have to meet him.
C. I enquired about his whereabouts the next day in case I would have to meet up.
D. I asked where you will be next day in case I will meet him.
A. I asked where he would be the next day in case I had to meet him.

62. He said, “The police had to arrest the criminal after court order.”

A. He said that the police had had to arrest the criminal after court order.
B. He tells that the police had to arrest the criminal after court order.
D. He said that the police had to arrest the criminal after court order.
C. He told that the police had had to arrest the criminal after court order.

63. Choose the correct option : “Don't go there”, He said. (Change into Indirect)

A. He said don't go there.
B. He told them not to go there.
D. He said them not to go there.
C. He told them not go there.

64. Change the following sentence from interrogative to assertive :When can their glory fade ?

B. Fade will never their glory.
D. The glory to fade is not possible.
A. Their glory can never fade.
C. No, the glory will never fade.

65. Convert the following sentence into direct speech from the options that follow :She asked if I would come with her.

A. She asked that, ‘Will you come with me.’
B. She said, ‘Will you come with me ?’
C. She requested, ‘Will I come with her ?’
D. She said, ‘Will I come with her ?’

66. Choose the option that is the grammatically correct transformation into Direct Speech of the following :She asked what had happened.

D. “What had happened ?” She says.
A. She said, “What has been happen ?”
C. She said, “What happened ?”
B. She asked to me “What happened ?”

67. Change from Assertive to Negative:He is cleverer than me.

D. I am not as cleverer than him.
B. I will not be as cleaver as him.
A. I am not very cleaver.
C. I am not as clever as he is.

68. Choose a sentence with the correct Indirect form of Narration:Direct : “I will sell the TV set if you keep quarrelling about the programme”. said their mother.“No, don’t do that ! We will never quarrel”, said the children.Options:

C. Their mother threatened to sell the TV set if they kept quarrelling about the programme. The children begged her not to do that assuring her that they would never quarrel.
D. Their mother threatened that she should sell the TV set if they kept quarrelling about the programme. The children requested her do not do this as we would never quarrel.
B. Their mother told that the TV set will be sold if they keep quarrelling about the programme. The children forbade her to do that, saying that they will never quarrel.
A. Their mother said that she would sell the TV set if you kept quarrelling about the programme. The children said, don’t do that as we would never quarrel.

69. His father ordered him to go to his room and study.

B. His father said to him, “Go and study in your room.”
A. His father said, “Go to your room and study.”
C. His father shouted, “Go right now to your study room.”
D. His father said firmly, “Go and study in your room.”

70. Choose the correct indirect speech of the following sentence :He said,“When did she arrive ?”

C. He asks when she had arrived.
D. He asked when she had arrived ?
A. He asked when she had arrived.
B. He asked when had she arrived.

71. Choose the most appropriate Affirmative form of the sentence given, from the options provided.Hurry up so that you don’t miss your class.

A. Miss your class, if you don’t hurry up.
C. Hurry up and don’t miss your class.
D. Don’t hurry and don’t miss your class.
B. Hurry up, lest you should miss your class.

72. Choose the correct option for Assertive to Interrogative transformation of the sentence given.Man cannot die better than facing fearful odds.

D. Can man die better than facing fearful odds?
B. How can man die better than facing fearful odds?
A. How can man die better than having to face fearful odds?
C. Can man die better than having to face fearful odds?

73. Directions: Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence. He said to me, “What a pity! You missed the party.”

A. He exclaimed what a pity it was that you missed the party.
B. He told to me that it was a pity I had missed the party.
D. He exclaimed that it was a pity you missed the party.
C. He exclaimed that it was a pity I had missed the party.

74. Choose the correct affirmative sentence.She is not guilty.

A. She is innocent.
C. She can be not guilty.
D. Innocent is she we know.
B. She is guilty.

75. Transform the given sentence into negative form choosing the best option from below :Everyone present there, cheered for her.

A. There was no one present there who cheered for her.
C. There was no one absent to cheer for her.
B. There was no one present there who did not cheer for her.
D. All but none cheered for her there.

76. Choose the correct option from Assertive to Exclamatory transformation for the sentence given :I wish I had wings of a dove.

B. I am desirous of having wings of a dove !
D. How can one have wings of a dove !
A. O that I had wings of a dove !
C. What if I had wings of a dove !

77. Ravi said, “I posted the letter.”

D. Ravi said I posted the letter.
A. Ravi said that he had posted the letter.
C. Was the letter not posted?
B. Ravi could not post the letter.

78. The spectators said, “Bravo! well done, players.”

B. The spectators exclaimed with joy that the players were doing very well
C. The spectators applauded the players saying that they had done well.
D. The spectators applauded the players joyfully to do well.
A. The spectators shouted that the players were doing very well

79. The teacher said to the boys, ‘Don’t annoy me’.The indirect narration of the above sentence will be:

D. The teacher said to the boys to annoy him.
B. The teacher asked the boys not to annoy him.
C. The teacher told the boys don't annoy him.
A. The teacher forbade the boys to annoy him.

80. Choose the correct exclamatory form of the following sentence from the options given below : I wish I were a clown.

A. I were a clown !
D. What a clown I were !
C. I think I was a clown
B. If only I were a clown !

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