Complete guide to "Grammar: Direct and Indirect Speech" for English students. Below you will find important questions and model answers to help you prepare.
We are building a dedicated quiz for this topic, but you can test your skills on a similar concept: Scholarship-VIII Comprehension: Prose & Poetry - Practice Set 1.
Choose correct alternative of following sentence. He says, "I am glad to be here this evening."
He says (that) he is glad to be here this evening.
He said that he was glad to be there that evening.
He says that he was glad to be there this evening.
He said that he is glad to be here that evening.
Choose the option from the following that contains correct reported speech: John said, ‘‘That’s the job you are offering me?’’
John asked whether that was the job he was offered
John asked whether that is the job he is offered
John said that this was the job she was offering him
John asked if that was the job she was offering him
Find out the error and choose the correct alternative for the following example of indirect speech. Ramesh said that he wants to be the soldier.
wants
said
that
to be