This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Speech > Direct Speech – Quiz 20 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Direct Speech Quiz 20 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 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. 2. What is the tense that a Present Perfect sentence converts to? A) Past Perfect. B) Past Perfect Continuous. C) Past Continuous. D) Simple Past. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Past Perfect. 3. What is the word that the word 'this' converts to? A) Then. B) Those. C) That. D) There. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) That. 4. "My parents are fine, " Anna said. A) Anna said that his parents were fine. B) Anna said that her parents are fining. C) Anna said that her parents are fine. D) Anna said that her parents were fine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anna said that her parents were fine. 5. Change to reported speech. Sana said ..... A) That it was cold that day. B) "It is a cold day.". C) "It is cold today.". D) "It is going to be cold today.". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) That it was cold that day. 6. Fira:" What did you sing at the party last night? "Fira told me what ..... A) I sing at the party the night before. B) I sing at the party last night. C) I sang at the party last night. D) I had sung at the party the night before. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) I had sung at the party the night before. 7. "My students weren't so good at riddles." :PMiss Alyson said ..... A) Her students couldn't be so good. B) Her students hadn't been so good at riddles. C) Her students weren't so good. D) My students weren't so good at riddles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Her students hadn't been so good at riddles. 8. 'I will go to a salsa class tonight, ' Pablo said A) Pablo said he will go to a salsa class tonight. B) Pablo said he would go to a salsa class that night. C) Pablo would go to a salsa class that night. D) Pablo said he would go to a salsa class tonight. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pablo said he would go to a salsa class that night. 9. 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: A) "I don't like hockey, " said Gitu. 10. What is the correct punctuation for this sentence? "Stop right there criminal scum" A) ?. B) ,. C) . D) !. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) !. 11. Which form of direct speech do we have here: "Take a seat now!" A) Reported speech. B) Infinitive form. C) Imperative form. D) Making a request. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imperative form. 12. 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. 13. Jonah asked Mary, "Why do you get angry with me? " A) John asked Mary why she gets angry with him. B) John asked Mary why she got angry with him. C) John asked Mary why she had gotten angry with him. D) John asked Mary why she is angry with him. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John asked Mary why she got angry with him. 14. Mother:" What do you eat at the restaurant? "Mother asked me what I ..... at the restaurant A) Ate. B) Eats. C) Eat. D) Eaten. E) Had eaten. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ate. 15. What is the word that the word 'here' converts to? A) That. B) Those. C) There. D) Then. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) There. 16. Nicole said, "I have finished my homework." A) Nicole said that she had finished my homework.". B) Nicole said that she had finished her homework.". C) Nicole said that she has finished her homework.". D) Nicole said that she has finished my homework.". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nicole said that she had finished her homework.". 17. This is considered as reporting speech by repeating the original words of a speaker. A) Repetition. B) Indirect Speech. C) Active Voice. D) Direct Speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Direct Speech. 18. "What is your name? " he asked me. A) He ask me what my name was. B) He asked me what was my name. C) He asked me what my name was. D) He asked me that my name was. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He asked me what my name was. 19. 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. 20. Choose the direct speech of the statement "She said that his friend had given her a bouquet of flower." A) My friend gave me a bouquet of flower. B) My friend gives me a bouquet of flower. C) My friend will give me a bouquet of flower. D) My friend give me a bouquet of flower. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) My friend gives me a bouquet of flower. 21. 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: C) "Have a nice day!". 22. 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 he felt sad that day. C) Wendell said that he is feeling sad today. D) Wendell said that he was feeling sad that day. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wendell said he felt sad that day. 23. Mother told me, "You should work hard" . Convert into indirect speech. A) Mother asked to work hard. B) Mother told me to be working hard. C) Mother told work hard. D) Mother told me that I should work hard. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mother told me that I should work hard. 24. What is the tense that a Present Prefect sentence converts to? A) Simple Past. B) Past Perfect Continuous. C) Past Continuous. D) Past Perfect. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Past Perfect. 25. What is the word that the words 'Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening' converts to? A) Waved. B) Yelled. C) Greeted. D) Respectfully. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Greeted. 26. 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. 27. What's wrong with this sentence? A) "Why" should be lowercase. B) There should not be a comma before the spoken words begin. C) The question mark should be enclosed by quotation marks. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The question mark should be enclosed by quotation marks. 28. 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. 29. 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, not to cheat. B) Open, cheat. C) To open, not cheat. D) To open, to cheat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To open, not to cheat. 30. Choose the sentence with the correct punctuation marks. A) I can't wait to go to the mall, she exclaimed. B) "I can't wait to go to the mall!, " she exclaimed. C) I can't wait to go to the mall! "she exclaimed.". D) "I can't wait to go to the mall" she exclaimed!. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "I can't wait to go to the mall!, " she exclaimed. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesDirect Speech Quiz 1Direct Speech Quiz 2Direct Speech Quiz 3Direct Speech Quiz 4Direct Speech Quiz 5Direct Speech Quiz 6Direct Speech Quiz 7Direct Speech Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books