This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Speech > Direct And Indirect Speech – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Direct And Indirect Speech Quiz 9 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. She said, "I'm going to the salon." A) Direct Speech. B) Indirect Speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct Speech. 2. The police man said to the boy, "Where do you live?" A) The policeman asked the boy where did he lived. B) The policeman asked the boy where he lived. C) The policeman asked the boy where he lives. D) The policeman asked the boy where did he live. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The policeman asked the boy where he lived. 3. Direct speech:She said, "I will take an English class."Indirect speech: ..... A) She tell me something. B) She told me I will take an English class. C) She told that she would take an English class. D) "I will take an English class, " said Jessica. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She told that she would take an English class. 4. What tense does 'may' change to in indirect speech? A) Could. B) Should. C) Would. D) Might. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Might. 5. Which of the following is a special feature of an indirect speech? A) It always ends with an exclamation mark. B) It always denotes the exact words of the speaker. C) It always has inverted commas in it. D) It always ends with a full stop. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It always ends with a full stop. 6. Change this sentence to direct speechChitra said that she will go to the shop today. A) Chitra said that she, "is going to the shop today" . B) Chitra said, "I will go to the shop today" . C) Chitra told that, "She will go to the shop today" . D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chitra said, "I will go to the shop today" . 7. These repeats or quotes the exact words that were spoken. A) Indirect Speech. B) Direct Speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Direct Speech. 8. When I spoke to Belen, yesterday, she said that she ..... to a party the night before. A) Had gone. B) Was going. C) Did go. D) Went. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had gone. 9. I said to them that I had not taken my book from there.(Select the appropriate direct speech of the above sentence) A) I said to them that I have not taken my book from here. B) I said to them, "I have not taken my book from here.". C) I said to them, "I have not taken my book from here." !. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I said to them, "I have not taken my book from here.". 10. "I'll give you your money back tomorrow." . A) She promised me to give the money back the next day. B) She promised to give me back the money the next day. C) She promise that she will give me the money tomorrow. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She promised me to give the money back the next day. 11. Is this sentence is the direct speech correct:Kamala said '' The cookies were delicious" . A) No, Wrong. B) Yes, Correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No, Wrong. 12. Turn Indirect speech to direct speech"He said that he was living in Paris." A) I am living in Paris. B) I am living in Pairs. C) I am not living in Paris. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I am living in Paris. 13. Which of the following is the correction for this INCORRECT direct speech? This pandemic has tremendously changed our way of life:says Prof. Lee. A) "This pandemic has tremendously changed our way of life" :says Prof. Lee. B) "This pandemic has tremendously changed our way of life" says Prof. Lee. C) "This pandemic has tremendously changed our way of life, " says Prof. Lee. D) "This pandemic has tremendously changed our way of life." says Prof. Lee. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "This pandemic has tremendously changed our way of life, " says Prof. Lee. 14. "When will they meet?" He asked me when ..... A) Would they meet. B) They would meet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They would meet. 15. He said, "The horse has been fed." A) He said that the horse has been fed. B) He said he fed the horse. C) He said that the horse had been fed. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He said that the horse had been fed. 16. CONVERT:Jun said, "We saw them." A) Jun said that we saw them. B) Jun said that we had seen them. C) Jun said that they had seen them. D) Jun said that they have seen them. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jun said that they had seen them. 17. In indirect speech, do we change the tense of the reported speech? A) Sometimes. B) No. C) Yes. D) Only for past tense. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Yes. 18. Transform the following statement into indirect speech: "We have prepared the salad, " said the students. A) The students said that they have prepared the salad. B) The students say that they had prepared the salad. C) The students say that they had prepared the salad. D) The students said that they had prepared the salad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The students said that they had prepared the salad. 19. Yuri asked, "Has Feiyin arrived?" A) Yuri asked if Feiyin has arrived. B) Yuri asked if had Feiyin arrived. C) Yuri asked if Feiyin had arrived. D) Yuri asked if Feiyin arrived. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Yuri asked if Feiyin had arrived. 20. Choose if the sentence is in Direct or Indirect Speech. "I am watching TV, " she said. A) Direct Speech. B) Indirect Speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct Speech. 21. Three days ago a friend told me that she was going to visit me ..... but she didn't arrive. A) The day before. B) The next day. C) Next day. D) Tomorrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The next day. 22. The traveler asked me to book him a seat in a non-smoker. A) "Please book me a seat in a non-smoker, " said the traveler. B) "Please ask her to book me a seat in a non-smoker, " said the traveler. C) "Book me a seat in a non-smoker, " said the traveler. D) "Will he book me a seat in a non-smoker, " said the traveler. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Please book me a seat in a non-smoker, " said the traveler. 23. What is the type of this statement; He said to me, "please help me" . A) Indirect Speech of Imperative Sentence. B) Indirect Speech for Interrogative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indirect Speech for Interrogative. 24. I said to him, "I do not believe you." A) I told him that I do not believe you. B) I said to him that I do not believe you. C) I told him that I did not believe him . D) I said to him that I did not believe you. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I told him that I did not believe him . 25. "Think well before you answer, " the detective warned her. A) The detective warned her to have thought before she answered. B) The detective warned her to think well before she answered. C) The detective warned her think well before she answered. D) The detective warned her thought well before she answered. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The detective warned her to think well before she answered. 26. The man asked, "What is your name?" A) The man asked what was my name. B) The man asked what my name was. C) The man asked what my name were. D) The man asked what you name was. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The man asked what my name was. 27. Change this sentence to Indirect speech.The little girl said, "I am lost." A) The little girl is lost. B) The little girl was lost. C) The little girl said that she was lost. D) The little girl said that she is lost. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The little girl said that she was lost. 28. Identify the speech;She said, "I am going to the market" A) Indirect Speech. B) Direct Speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Direct Speech. 29. They say that they are having their meal now. A) "We were having our meal then, " they say. B) "We are having our meal now, " they say. C) "We were having our meal then, " they said. D) "We are having our meal now, " they said. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "We are having our meal now, " they say. 30. She said to the shopkeeper, "How much is the price of this book?" A) She asked the shopkeeper how much the price of the book was. B) She asked the shopkeeper how much the price of the book is. C) She told to the shopkeeper how much the price of the book was. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She asked the shopkeeper how much the price of the book was. 31. Which one shows the correct punctation? A) "Where are you going" asked Abdul Kazam?. B) "Where are you going?" asked Abdul Kazam. C) "Where are you going" ? asked Abdul Kazam. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "Where are you going?" asked Abdul Kazam. 32. The farmer said, "The goat died in the night." A) The farmer said that the goat had died in the night. B) The farmer said the goat died. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The farmer said that the goat had died in the night. 33. She told her parents that she ..... in the reading room at that moment. A) Will be working. B) Has been working. C) Is working. D) Was working. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Was working. 34. Max asked me, "How must does this pen cost?" A) He asked me how much that pen costed. B) He asked me how much did that pen costed. C) He asked me how much did that pen cost. D) He asked me how much that pen cost. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He asked me how much that pen cost. 35. Direct to Indirect Speech:Jullie said to me, "I have to win this game." A) Jullie told me that she must win this game. B) Jullie told me that she must win that game. C) Jullie told me that she had to win that game. D) Jullie told me that she had to win this game. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jullie told me that she had to win that game. 36. How Direct Speech is delivered: A) Reporting what was said exactly in the words of the speaker. B) Reporting what was said in the narrator's words. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reporting what was said exactly in the words of the speaker. 37. Convert( assertive) direct to indirect speech-Vineetha said, '' The information is being downloaded from the internet." A) Vineetha informed that the information was being downloaded from the internet. B) Vineetha exclaimed sorrowfully that the information was being downloaded from the internet. C) Vineetha informed the information was being downloaded from the internet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vineetha informed that the information was being downloaded from the internet. 38. We use inverted comas in A) Direct speech. B) Indirect speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct speech. 39. 'I had lived in four countries by the age of ten.' $\rightarrow$ She said that she ..... in four countries by the age of ten. A) Had lived. B) Had been living. C) Will have lived. D) Lived. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had lived. 40. Alice asked me how long I ..... A) Am waiting. B) Was waiting. C) Had been waiting. D) Have been waiting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had been waiting. 41. My friend said to me, "Has your father returned from Calcutta?" A) My friend enquired me if his father had returned from Calcutta. B) My friend said to me that my father has returned from Calcutta. C) My friend asked me if my father had returned from Calcutta. D) My friend told me that his father had returned from Calcutta. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) My friend asked me if my father had returned from Calcutta. 42. "I saw a great movie yesterday, " she said with excitement. A) She said with excitement she saw a great movie yesterday. B) She said with excitement she had seen a great movie the day before. C) She said with excitement she saw a great movie the day before. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She said with excitement she had seen a great movie the day before. 43. Do you have to use 'that' with all reported speech sentences? A) No, only with statements. B) No, only with requests. C) No. D) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) No. 44. Convert into indirect speechShe said to me, "I have a beautiful watch" A) She told me that she had the beautiful watch. B) She told me that I had a beautiful watch. C) She told me that she had a beautiful watch. D) She told me that she has a beautiful watch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She told me that she had a beautiful watch. 45. Choose the correct form of the verb in Indirect Speech.Direct:He said, "Jill went to the clinic yesterday."Indirect:He said that Jill ..... to the clinic the day before. A) Have gone. B) Had gone. C) Has gone. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had gone. 46. John said, "I am very busy now." A) John said that he was very busy then. B) John said that he is very busy now. C) John said that he was very busy now. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John said that he was very busy then. 47. Joe said I had always been his friend. A) "You were always my friend, " said Joe. B) "You have always been my friend, " said Joe. C) "You had always been my friend, " said Joe. D) "You are always my friend, " said Joe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "You have always been my friend, " said Joe. 48. Example:Rita said, "Your painting is really nice." Which of the following is a correct reported speech? A) Rita said that his painting was really nice. B) Rita said that your painting is really nice. C) Rita said that my painting is really nice. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rita said that his painting was really nice. 49. Toni said to me, "I wish I knew the information earlier" . It means ..... A) Tono wish that he knew the information earlier. B) Tono wished that he knew the information earlier. C) Tono wish that he had known the information earlier. D) Tono wished that he had known the information earlier. E) Tono wishes that he had knew the information earlier. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tono wished that he had known the information earlier. 50. 'There was an accident outside the supermarket'. A) He said there had been an accident outside the supermarket. B) He said there were an accident outside the supermarket. C) He said there has been an accident outside the supermarket. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He said there had been an accident outside the supermarket. 51. Change the following into Indirect speech-I said to the students, "You should do the duties." A) I told the students that they should do the duties. B) I want that students should do the duties. C) I said to the students that I should do the duties. D) I asked the students to do the duties. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I told the students that they should do the duties. 52. We do not change verb tenses in indirect/reported speech when A) The fact being reported is a general truth. B) The reporting verb is in the simple present tense. C) Both options are correct. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both options are correct. 53. She said she lives with her mother. A) Direct Speech. B) Indirect Speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indirect Speech. 54. He says that he is the tallest boy in the class. A) Indirect speech. B) Direct speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Indirect speech. 55. (Change the quoted speech to reported speech.) "Your mother left the party earlier." Your father said that ..... A) His mother had left the party earlier. B) Your mother had left the party earlier. C) Your mother left the party earlier. D) My mother had left the party earlier. E) My mother left the party earlier. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) My mother had left the party earlier. 56. Melissa said, "I have been to India three times." A) Melissa said that I had been to India three times. B) She said that she has been to India three times. C) She said that she had been to India three times. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She said that she had been to India three times. 57. Transform the following statement into indirect speech:Tricia said, "Our tour guide has arrived." A) Tricia said that our tour guide had arrived. B) Tricia said that their tour guide had arrived. C) Tricia said that their tour guide has arrived. D) Tricia said that our tour guide has arrived. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tricia said that their tour guide had arrived. 58. Harvey said, "I am going out of town." A) Harvey said that he is going out of town. B) Harvey said that he was going out of town. C) Harvey said that he went out of town. D) Harvey said that I am going out of town. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Harvey said that he was going out of town. 59. ALL OTHER PUNCTUATION MARKS ARE REMOVED IN DIRECT SPEECH A) YES OF COURSE. B) NO. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) NO. 60. We said, " We are quite happy now" . A) We said that we were quite happy then. B) We said that we are happy. C) We were happy. D) We say that we were happy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) We said that we were quite happy then. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesDirect And Indirect Speech Quiz 1Direct And Indirect Speech Quiz 2Direct And Indirect Speech Quiz 3Direct And Indirect Speech Quiz 4Direct And Indirect Speech Quiz 5Direct And Indirect Speech Quiz 6Direct And Indirect Speech Quiz 7Direct And Indirect Speech Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books