This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Speech > Direct Speech – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Direct Speech Quiz 10 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. She said, "I am going to learn to drive." A) She said that she go to learn to drive. B) She said that she are going to learn to drive. C) He said that He was going to learn to drive. D) She said that she was going to learn to drive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She said that she was going to learn to drive. 2. Direct speech: ..... Indirect speech:My parents asked me whether I had done English homework. A) My parents asked me, "Do you do English homework? ". B) My parents asked me, "Did you do English homework? ". C) My parents asked me, "Do I do English homework? ". D) My parents asked me, "Did I do English homework? ". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) My parents asked me, "Did you do English homework? ". 3. Adam suggested wearing smart clothes to Tom's party the next Friday. A) 'Do you want to wear smart clothes to Tom's party? '. B) 'How about wearing smart clothes to Tom's party the following Friday? '. C) 'How about wearing smart clothes to Tom's party hte previous Friday? '. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 'How about wearing smart clothes to Tom's party the following Friday? '. 4. Mr. Bheem asked the students ..... their test. A) Have they finished. B) Whether they have finished. C) Whether they had finished. D) Have they finish. E) If they have finished. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Whether they had finished. 5. "Where does Peter live? " she asked him A) She asked her where Peter lived. B) She ask him where Peter lived. C) She asked him where Peter lived. D) He asked him where Peter lived. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She asked him where Peter lived. 6. What is the tense that a Present Continuous sentence converts to? A) Simple Past. B) Past Perfect. C) Past Perfect Continuous. D) Past Continuous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Past Continuous. 7. Adi:" I slept well last night. "Adi said that he ..... A) Sleep well the night before. B) Slept well last night. C) Sleep well last night. D) Had slept well the night before. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had slept well the night before. 8. True or False | Direct speech is writing down or reporting the actual words that were said by a speaker A) True. B) False. C) None of above. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 9. Punctuate the sentence correctly.Aniq shouted help A) Aniq shouted, "Help!". B) Aniq shouted, "help!". C) Aniq shouted "Help!". D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aniq shouted, "Help!". 10. Commas with Direct Speech and NamesWhich sentence is written correctly? A) Chuck, you should meet us at the zebra enclosure. B) Chuck you should meet us at the zebra enclosure. C) Chuck, "you should meet us at the zebra enclosure.". D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chuck, you should meet us at the zebra enclosure. 11. Choose the correct verb form in reported speech. She said, "I am working in a hospital." She told me that ..... in a hospital. A) She was working. B) She worked. C) I was working. D) She is working. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She was working. 12. "I want to buy a car, " he said. A) He said that he wanted to buy a car. B) She said that she want to buy a car. C) He said that He wanted to bought a car. D) She said that she wanted to buy a car. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He said that he wanted to buy a car. 13. This is a kind of speech that is usually used to talk about the past, so we normally change the tense of the words spoken. We use reporting verbs like 'say', 'tell', 'ask', and we may use the word 'that' to introduce the reported words. A) Active Voice. B) Indirect Speech. C) Direct Speech. D) Passive Voice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indirect Speech. 14. Why do we use Direct Speech? A) To speak directly to someone. B) To show the exact words that someone has said when we are writing. C) To give someone directions whilst we are speaking. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To show the exact words that someone has said when we are writing. 15. What is the tense that a Present Perfect sentence converts to? A) Past Perfect Continuous. B) Past Perfect. C) Simple Past. D) Past Continuous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Past Perfect. 16. What is the word that the word 'this' converts to? A) Those. B) That. C) There. D) Then. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) That. 17. "My parents are fine, " Anna said. A) Anna said that her parents are fine. B) Anna said that her parents are fining. C) Anna said that her parents were fine. D) Anna said that his parents were fine. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anna said that her parents were fine. 18. Change to reported speech. Sana said ..... A) "It is going to be cold today.". B) That it was cold that day. C) "It is a cold day.". D) "It is cold today.". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) That it was cold that day. 19. Fira:" What did you sing at the party last night? "Fira told me what ..... A) I sing at the party last night. B) I sang at the party last night. C) I had sung at the party the night before. D) I sing at the party the night before. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I had sung at the party the night before. 20. "My students weren't so good at riddles." :PMiss Alyson said ..... A) Her students hadn't been so good at riddles. B) Her students couldn't be so good. C) Her students weren't so good. D) My students weren't so good at riddles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Her students hadn't been so good at riddles. 21. 'I will go to a salsa class tonight, ' Pablo said A) Pablo would go to a salsa class that night. B) Pablo said he would go to a salsa class tonight. C) Pablo said he would go to a salsa class that night. D) Pablo said he will go to a salsa class tonight. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pablo said he would go to a salsa class that night. 22. Change to direct speech.Gitu said he did not like hockey. A) "I don't like hockey? " said Gitu. B) "I don't like hockey, " said Gitu. C) "I don't like hockey" . said Gitu. D) "I don't like hockey" said Gitu. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "I don't like hockey, " said Gitu. 23. What is the correct punctuation for this sentence? "Stop right there criminal scum" A) !. B) ,. C) ?. D) . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) !. 24. Which form of direct speech do we have here: "Take a seat now!" A) Imperative form. B) Making a request. C) Infinitive form. D) Reported speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imperative form. 25. Jessica said, "Don't play football in the garden." A) Jessica requested to play football. B) Jessica did not want to play football in the garden. C) Jessica told me not to play football in the garden. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jessica told me not to play football in the garden. 26. Jonah asked Mary, "Why do you get angry with me? " A) John asked Mary why she is angry with him. B) John asked Mary why she gets angry with him. C) John asked Mary why she had gotten angry with him. D) John asked Mary why she got angry with him. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John asked Mary why she got angry with him. 27. Mother:" What do you eat at the restaurant? "Mother asked me what I ..... at the restaurant A) Eats. B) Ate. C) Eaten. D) Eat. E) Had eaten. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ate. 28. What is the word that the word 'here' converts to? A) Then. B) That. C) There. D) Those. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) There. 29. Nicole said, "I have finished my homework." A) Nicole said that she had finished my homework.". B) Nicole said that she has finished my homework.". C) Nicole said that she had finished her homework.". D) Nicole said that she has finished her homework.". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nicole said that she had finished her homework.". 30. This is considered as reporting speech by repeating the original words of a speaker. A) Repetition. B) Active Voice. C) Direct Speech. D) Indirect Speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Direct Speech. 31. "What is your name? " he asked me. A) He asked me that my name was. B) He ask me what my name was. C) He asked me what was my name. D) He asked me what my name was. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He asked me what my name was. 32. In what kind of sentence is iIndirect Speech used. A) Indirect Speech is used to tell about the past, so we normally change the tense of the word spoken. We use reporting verbs like 'say', 'tell', 'ask', and we may use the word 'that' to introduce the reported words. B) Indirect speech is used in a happy, excited, joyfully sentences. C) Indirect speech are used in a sentence where a comma comes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Indirect Speech is used to tell about the past, so we normally change the tense of the word spoken. We use reporting verbs like 'say', 'tell', 'ask', and we may use the word 'that' to introduce the reported words. 33. Choose the direct speech of the statement "She said that his friend had given her a bouquet of flower." A) My friend will give me a bouquet of flower. B) My friend gave me a bouquet of flower. C) My friend give me a bouquet of flower. D) My friend gives me a bouquet of flower. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) My friend gives me a bouquet of flower. 34. Give this sentence of dialogue punctuation:have a nice day A) "Have a nice day!. B) "have a nice day!". C) Have a nice day!. D) "Have a nice day!". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "Have a nice day!". 35. How do we write this direct speech to reported speech? Wendell said, "I am feeling sad today." A) Wendell said that he was feeling sad that day. B) Wendell said, that he was feeling sad that day. C) Wendell said that he is feeling sad today. D) Wendell said he felt sad that day. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wendell said he felt sad that day. 36. Mother told me, "You should work hard" . Convert into indirect speech. A) Mother told me that I should work hard. B) Mother told work hard. C) Mother told me to be working hard. D) Mother asked to work hard. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mother told me that I should work hard. 37. What is the tense that a Present Prefect sentence converts to? A) Past Perfect Continuous. B) Simple Past. C) Past Continuous. D) Past Perfect. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Past Perfect. 38. What is the word that the words 'Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening' converts to? A) Respectfully. B) Yelled. C) Greeted. D) Waved. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Greeted. 39. When is direct speech used? A) In dialogue. B) In stuff. C) When sombody cries. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In dialogue. 40. Sheila said, "They came hereyesterday." A) Sheila said that they had come there a day ago. B) Sheila said that they came here yesterday. C) Sheila said that they were here a day ago. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sheila said that they had come there a day ago. 41. The teacher:" Open your book and don't cheat to the others!"The teacher asked me ..... the book and ..... to the others A) To open, to cheat. B) Open, cheat. C) To open, not to cheat. D) To open, not cheat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To open, not to cheat. 42. "The smell of the flowers will protect the vegetables from the insects" , Ana replied. A) Declarative sentence. B) Indirect speech. C) Interrogative sentence. D) Direct speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Direct speech. 43. Which is the correct reported speech of the direct speech below? His father asks him, "What are your plans in college? " A) His father asks what are your plans in college?. B) His father asks him what his plans are in college. C) His father asks what your plans are in college?. D) His father asks him of his plans in college. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His father asks him what his plans are in college. 44. What is the word that the word 'these' converts to? A) That. B) There. C) Those. D) Then. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Those. 45. Last week/month/year changes to ..... in indirect speech. A) Before. B) The previous week/month/year. C) The following week. D) Today. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The previous week/month/year. 46. 'What is the best thing about your job? ' Lisa asked the actor. A) Lisa asked her what the best thing about her job was. B) Lisa asked him what the best thing about his job is. C) Lisa asked him what the best thing about his job was. D) Lisa asked him what is the best thing about his job. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lisa asked him what the best thing about his job was. 47. My brother said, "I love to sing." A) My brother said that he loves to sing. B) My brother said that he loved to sing. C) My brother said that he loves singing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) My brother said that he loved to sing. 48. "I've broken your glass, " Tim told me. A) Tim told me that he has broken my glass. B) Tim told me that I have broken your glass. C) Tim told me that I have broken his glass. D) Tim told me that he had broken my glass. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tim told me that he had broken my glass. 49. Johnny's mother told him: "Put away your toys." A) Johnny's mother told him to put away his toys. B) Johnny's mother told him put away his toys. C) Johnny's mother told him to putted away his toys. D) Johnny's mother told him put away your toys. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Johnny's mother told him to put away his toys. 50. Transform this Direct speech into Indirect speech correctly: "There are many wounded patients in the hospital, " the doctor stated. A) The doctor stated that there are many doctors in the hospital as patients. B) The doctor stated that there were many wounded patients in the hospital. C) The doctor stated that there are many hospitals for the wounded patients. D) The doctor stated that there are patients in the wounded hospital. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The doctor stated that there were many wounded patients in the hospital. 51. Susan told him, "I want you to return my book now." A) Susan told him that she wanted him to return her book then. B) Susan told him that I wanted him to return my book now.". C) Susan told him that she wants him to return her book then. D) Susan told him that she wanted him to return her book now. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Susan told him that she wanted him to return her book then. 52. Change the sentences using Reported Speech and the correct form of the verbs given. "Kelly, ring the travel agency and ask about the trip to Spain, " Betty said. (tell) A) Betty told Kelly to ring the travel agency and ask about the trip to Spain. B) Betty tells Kelly to ring the travel agency and asked about the trip to Spain. C) Betty telled Kelly to ring the travel agency and ask about the trip to Spain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Betty told Kelly to ring the travel agency and ask about the trip to Spain. 53. June said, "It is my car." A) June said that it is my car. B) June said that it is her car. C) June said that it was her car. D) June said that it was my car. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) June said that it was her car. 54. Direct Speech:Ray said, "I have completed the series." Indirect Speech: ..... A) Ray said that he has completed the series. B) Ray said that I had completed the series. C) Ray said that he had completed the series. D) Ray said that I have completed the series. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ray said that he had completed the series. 55. Direct speech: "I may become a receptionist in the future, " Karen said.Reported speech:Karen said that she ..... a receptionist in ..... A) Was becoming/ the year. B) Had become/ the past. C) Might become/ the future. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Might become/ the future. 56. This is a kind of speech that repeats, or quotes, the exact words spoken. We place the words spoken between quotation marks (" ") and there is no change in these words. A) Passive Voice. B) Direct Speech. C) Reported Speech. D) Active Voice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Direct Speech. 57. Punctuate this sentence correctly.Well done said the teacher A) "Well done, " said the teacher. B) "Well done, " said the teacher. C) "Well done" said the teacher. D) "Well done" , said the teacher. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Well done, " said the teacher. 58. It is a sentence that gives a statement or thought in its original form according to how the original speaker said it. A) Independent clause. B) Indirect (or Reported) speech. C) Dependent clause. D) Direct speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Direct speech. 59. Anna asked him if he played basketball on Wednesdays. A) 'Does she play basketball on Wednesdays? ', Anna asked him. B) 'Will you play basketball on Wednesdays? ', Anna asked him. C) 'Do you play basketball on Wednesdays? ', Anna asked him. D) 'Do I play basketball on Wednesdays? ', Anna asked him. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 'Do you play basketball on Wednesdays? ', Anna asked him. 60. Change the sentences using Reported Speech and the correct form of the verbs given. "'Please, don't step on my towel" Mary said to her brother. (ask) A) Mary ask her brother not to stepped on her towel. B) Mary asked her brother to step on her towel. C) Mary asked her brother not to step on her towel. D) None of above. 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