Direct & Indirect Speech

QUESTION 51

Select the most appropriate option to transform the given sentence into Reported Speech.The traffic policeman said to him, “Show me your driving licence.”

B The traffic police demanded his driving licence.
A The traffic police told him to show him your driving licence.
C The traffic police requested him to show his driving licence.
D The traffic police ordered him to show him his driving licence.

QUESTION 52

Change the following sentence into direct speech:He exclaimed that it was a dreadful idea.

D He said, “what a dreadful idea it is.”
B He said, “this is a dreadful idea.”
C He said, “what a dreadful idea!”
A He said, “it is dreadful idea.”

QUESTION 53

He said, “Alas, how foolish I have been!”

C He exclaimed regreting his foolishness.
D He expressed with sorrow that he has been very foolish.
B He exclained with regret that he had been very foolish.
A He expressed with sorrow that he had been very foolish.

QUESTION 54

He is the best student in his class.

B He is not better than any other student in his class.
A He is not the best student in his class.
D No other student in his class is better than he.
C No other student in his class is so good as he.

QUESTION 55

Choose the correct option that gives correct ‘Indirect’ form of the given sentence :He shouted, “Let me go:”

C He shouted to them that let me go.
D He shouted to them that let go.
B He shouted to them to let him go.
A He shouted to them that he should let go.

QUESTION 56

Choose the correct negative form of the following sentence from the given options :She is going out. .

B She hasn't gone out.
A She is not going out.
C Hardly does she go out.
D Nor she does go out.

QUESTION 57

Choose the correct Indirect form of the following Direct speech sentence:“We had better go”, said she getting up.

B She said in a hurry to go.
A She said getting up that they had better go.
C She said we must go better.
D She said getting up to go that it was better.

QUESTION 58

The Principal said to the students, “Where were you yesterday?”(Change into Indirect)

D The Principal asked to the students where they had been yesterday?
A The Principal told the students where were they yesterday.
C The Principal asked the students where they were the day before.
B The Principal asked the students where they had been the day before.

QUESTION 59

Choose the correct option Changing the following sentence into assertive :How childish your talks are!

C Your talks are not childish.
A Your talks are childish.
B Your talks should be childish.
D Your talks are very childish.

QUESTION 60

Choose the correct form of Indirect Narration for the given sentence:The lady said to the man, “Please lend me your pen.”

D The lady asked the man politely if he could lend her his pen.
C The lady requested the man to lend her his pen.
B The lady told the man to lend her his pen.
A The lady said that please lend me your pen.

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