This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Speech > Direct Speech – Quiz 23 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Direct Speech Quiz 23 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Change this to direct speech:Mariam said her father is a dentist. A) Mariam said, "My father is a dentist.". B) Mariam said, "Her father is a dentist" . C) Mariam said "My father is a dentist" . D) Mariam says "Her father is a dentist.". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mariam said, "My father is a dentist.". 2. John asked me, "What are you doing? " . A) John asked me what I am doing. B) John asked me what I were doing. C) John asked me what I had done. D) John asked me what I was doing. E) John said what are you doing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John asked me what I was doing. 3. "I was waiting for the bus when he arrived." A) She said that she had been waiting for the bus when he arrived. B) She said i had been waiting for the bus when he arrived. C) She said I was waiting for the bus when he arrived. D) She said that she has been waiting for the bus when he arrived. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She said that she had been waiting for the bus when he arrived. 4. He said, "I am a man. "Which of the following is the indirect form of the statement. A) He said that I was a man. B) He said that he is a man. C) He said that he was a man. D) He said that I am a man. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He said that he is a man. 5. (Convert all the sentences given in the Quiz to Indirect speech)John said, "I love this town." A) John said that he love this town. B) John said that he loved this town. C) John said that he loved that town. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John said that he loved that town. 6. Meera said to Ramesh, "I will go there tomorrow. "Change into indirect speech A) Meera told that she will go there tomorrow. B) Meera told Ramesh that she would go there the next day. C) Meera said that she will go there tomorrow. D) Meera said to Ramesh, " that she will go there tomorrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meera told Ramesh that she would go there the next day. 7. Direct Speech:She said, "I will go to the market" . Indirect Speech: ..... A) She said that I would go to the market. B) She said that she would go to the market. C) She said that I will go to the market. D) She said that she will go to the market. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She said that she would go to the market. 8. She said, " I will call you." A) She said that I will call you. B) She said that she would call me. C) She said that she will call me. D) She said that she may call me. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She said that she would call me. 9. What is missing in the sentence below? The teacher said, "we will meet online at 7:30 am." A) Quotation marks. B) An exclamation mark. C) A capital letter. D) A question mark. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An exclamation mark. 10. Ravi said, ' I will finish my work by next week"Change into reported speech. A) Ravi will finish his work next week. B) Ravi told me he will finish his work. C) Ravi said that he would finish his work by the following week. D) Ravi said that he would finish his work by next week. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ravi said that he would finish his work by the following week. 11. Diana:" I went to Bali last month. "Diana said that she ..... A) Went to Bali the month before. B) Had gone to Bali last month. C) Had gone to Bali the month before. D) Goes to Bali last month. E) Go to Bali last month. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had gone to Bali the month before. 12. "I haven't seen Amy recently, " Steve said. A) He said he seen Amy recently. B) He said he hadn't seen Amy recently. C) He said he hasn't seen Amy recently. D) Steve said he hadn't saw Amy recently. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He said he hadn't seen Amy recently. 13. Change into indirect speech:She says, "The sun rises in the East." A) She said that the sun rises in the East. B) She says that the sun rose in the East. C) She says that the sun rises in the East. D) She said that the sun rose in the East. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She says that the sun rises in the East. 14. 'I want to go to the library and work on my paper, ' said Isaiah.The sentence above is an example of direct speech. Choose the sentence below that correctly transforms this sentence into indirect speech. A) Isaiah said, 'He wanted to go to the library and work on his paper.'. B) Isaiah says he wants to go to the library and work on his paper. C) I want to go to the library and work on my paper, Isaiah said. D) Isaiah said he wanted to go to the library and work on his paper. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Isaiah said, 'He wanted to go to the library and work on his paper.'. 15. Ann said: "My mother bought this dress . "Ann said that ..... A) Her mother bought that dress. B) Her mother had bought that dress. C) His mother buy this dress. D) Her mother had bought this dress. E) My mother had bought this dress. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Her mother had bought that dress. 16. What is the tense that a Past Continuous sentence converts to? A) Past Continuous. B) Simple Past. C) Past Perfect Continuous. D) Past Perfect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Past Perfect Continuous. 17. Reported Speech refers to ..... A) How someone else said before. B) What you are saying. C) When somebody else said. D) How we represent the speech of other people. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) How we represent the speech of other people. 18. "I'll do it tomorrow." He said he ..... A) Is going to do it the next day. B) Will do it the next day. C) Could do it the next day. D) Would do it the next day. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Would do it the next day. 19. 'Have you read this book? 'He ..... I had read the book. A) Asked me if. B) Said that if. C) Said that. D) Asks me if. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Asked me if. 20. Mandy said she had forgotten to lock the garage when she had left that morning. A) 'I forgot locking the garage when I left that morning'. B) 'I have forgotten to lock the garage when I have left this morning'. C) 'I must lock the garage when I leave'. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 'I have forgotten to lock the garage when I have left this morning'. 21. What kind of speech + form is the following:He asked me to have a seat. A) Indirect + statment. B) Direct + imperative. C) Direct + request. D) Indirect + request. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Indirect + request. 22. They asked me, "Do you like our house? " A) They asked me whether I like our house. B) They asked me if I like their house. C) They asked me whether I liked their house. D) They asked me if I liked our house. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They asked me whether I liked their house. 23. Change this to direct speech:John asked me why I was sad. A) John asked me, "Why are you sad.". B) John asked me, "why are you sad? ". C) John asked me, 'Why are you sad?. D) John asked me, "Why are you sad? ". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John asked me, "Why are you sad? ". 24. Direct speech: "We will reach our destination tomorrow at 5 a.m, " said the tour guide to us. Reported speech:The tour guide ..... us that we ..... our destination the ..... at 5 a.m. A) Said/ were reaching/ yesterday. B) Told/ would reach/ the next day. C) B. told/ could reach/ tomorrow. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Told/ would reach/ the next day. 25. Identify whether the following sentence is direct speech or indirect speech, Tia said, "I am tired." A) Indirect speech. B) None. C) Direct speech. D) Pronoun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Direct speech. 26. "I am going away for a few days, " Anna said. A) She said that she is going away for a few days. B) She said that she was going away for a few days. C) He said that he was going away for a few days. D) She said that she are going away for a few days. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She said that she was going away for a few days. 27. "Why don't you go today? "I asked. A) I asked why did you not go that day. B) I asked why you did not go that day. C) I asked why you had not gone today. D) I asked why had you not gone that day. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I asked why you did not go that day. 28. "We went out last night" A) She said we went out last night. B) She said they went out last night. C) She said that they have gone out. D) She said that they had gone out last night. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She said that they had gone out last night. 29. David said, "John had already finished work at five." A) David said that John had already finished work at five. B) David said that he had finished his work at five. C) John finished his work at five. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) David said that John had already finished work at five. 30. Pam's mother told her to tidy her room then. A) 'Tidy your room then, Pam'. B) 'You must tidy your room'. C) 'Tidy your room now, Pam'. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 'Tidy your room now, Pam'. ← 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