Questions & Answers: "Grammar: Direct and Indirect Speech"

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1.

Choose correct alternative of following sentence. He says, "I am glad to be here this evening."

Options

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.

2.

Choose the option from the following that contains correct reported speech: John said, ‘‘That’s the job you are offering me?’’

Options

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