This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Speech > Direct Speech – Quiz 30 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Direct Speech Quiz 30 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the phrase that the word 'tonight' converts to? A) That night. B) The next day. C) The following day. D) That day. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) That night. 2. Change this to direct speech:Mr Lee said Kim wasn't home. A) Mr Lee said "Kim isn't home. B) Mr Lee said, "Kim isn't home.". C) Mr Lee said, "Kim isn't home". D) Mr Lee said, "Kim wasn't home.". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mr Lee said, "Kim isn't home.". 3. 'It is cold outside, ' Helen said.Helen said it ..... cold outside. A) Was. B) Is. C) Will be. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was. 4. Rita said, "Shall we go to the temple? "Change to indirect speech with the correcting reporting verb. A) Rita told me to go to the temple . B) Rita and I will be going to the temple . C) Rita suggested going to the temple. D) Rita wants to go to the temple. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rita suggested going to the temple. 5. Direct speech: ..... Indirect speech:The teacher asked us how we were doing. A) The teacher asked us, "How are you doing? ". B) The teacher asked us, "How are we doing? ". C) The teacher asked us, "How were you doing? ". D) The teacher asked us, "How were we doing? ". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The teacher asked us, "How are you doing? ". 6. Direct speech: ..... Indirect speech:The teacher told us to be diligent. A) The teacher told us, "Be diligent!". B) The teacher told us, "To be diligent!". C) The teacher told us, "You are diligent!". D) The teacher told us, "We are diligent!". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The teacher told us, "Be diligent!". 7. This is also called as Indirect Speech. A) Declared. B) Disclosed. C) Reported. D) Recited. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reported. 8. X: "What does she say to you? "Y:She told me ..... A) She needed help. B) She needs help. C) She had needed help. D) She has needed help. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She needed help. 9. "Don't do it!" my mum said A) She ask me not to do it. B) She told me to not do it. C) She asked me not to do it. D) She told me not to do it. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She told me not to do it. 10. Rony:" I drive a car today. "Rony said that ..... A) I drive a car today. B) I drive a car that day. C) He drove a car that day. D) He drove a car today. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He drove a car that day. 11. "I exercised yesterday." Andra said that ..... A) Andra said that he exercises yesterday. B) Andra said that I exercised yesterday. C) Andra said that he exercise the day before. D) Andra said that I exercise the day before. E) Andra said that he had exercised the day before. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Andra said that he had exercised the day before. 12. Dan's sister refused to do the washing up for him. A) 'I won't do the washing up for you, Dan'. B) 'I didn't do the washing up'. C) 'I was doing the washing up'. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 'I won't do the washing up for you, Dan'. 13. Peter said, "Don't worry, I will fix it." A) Peter told me don't worry and he will fix it. B) Peter told me don't worry and that he would fix it. C) Peter told me to not worry and that he would fix it. D) Peter told me not to worry and that he would fix it. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Peter told me not to worry and that he would fix it. 14. If the reported speech expresses universal truth, a scientific fact, habitual action, the tenses do not change. A) True. B) False. C) I have no idea. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 15. Change the sentences using Reported Speech and the correct form of the verbs given. "Can I invite my friends over for dinner, Mum? " Fay wanted to know. (ask) A) Fay asked her mother if she could invite her friends over for dinner. B) Fay asked her mother if she can invite her friends over for dinner. C) Fay asks her mother if she can invite her friends over for dinner. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fay asked her mother if she could invite her friends over for dinner. 16. What is the tense that a Simple Past sentence converts to? A) Past Continuous. B) Past Perfect. C) Simple Past. D) Past Perfect Continuous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Past Perfect. 17. Which is the correct reported speech of the direct speech below? She said, "I can dance." A) She said, She can dance. B) She said she could dance. C) She said, she could dance. D) She said she can dance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She said she could dance. 18. Transform this Direct speech into Indirect speech correctly: "I'm at your service, "I stated. A) I stated that I am your service. B) I stated that he is at your service. C) He stated that I am at your service. D) He stated that he was at your service. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He stated that he was at your service. 19. Dini:" Where do you buy this bag? Dini asked me where ..... A) I buy this bag. B) I bought that bag. C) I bought this bag. D) I had bought that bag. E) I had bought this bag. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I bought that bag. 20. Choose the correct answer from the given indirect speech options.(Remember the rule:Present Perfect in the direct becomes Past Perfect.)Kamal said, "I have done my home work" . A) Kamal said that he had done his home work. B) Kamal said that he is doing his home work. C) Kamal said that I had done his home work. D) Kamal said that he had done my home work. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kamal said that he had done his home work. 21. Direct Speech:My brother and his friends said, "We were playing in the park" . Indirect Speech: ..... A) My brother and his friends said that they had been playing in the park. B) My brother and his friends said that they were playing in the park. C) My brother and his friends said that we had been playing in the park. D) My brother and his friends said that we were playing in the park. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) My brother and his friends said that they had been playing in the park. 22. Change to indirect speech:She asked me, "What is your name? " A) She asked me what my name was. B) She asked me what is your name?. C) She asked me what was my name. D) She said to me what my name was. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She asked me what my name was. 23. "How old are you? " asked Hannah. A) Hannah asked me how old I am. B) Hannah asked me how she was. C) Hannah asked me how old I was. D) Hannah asked me how old you are. E) Hannah asked me how old was she. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hannah asked me how old I was. 24. "Luis visited the farm, " Selmo said. A) Direct speech. B) Indirect speech. C) Active voice. D) Passive voice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct speech. 25. Indirect speech of the given direct speech[ Steve said " I am very happy today. " A) Steve said he was very happy today. B) Steve said that he was very happy. C) Steve said that he was very happy that day. D) Steven said that he was very happy that day. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Steve said that he was very happy that day. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesDirect Speech Quiz 1Direct Speech Quiz 2Direct Speech Quiz 3Direct Speech Quiz 4Direct Speech Quiz 5Direct Speech Quiz 6Direct Speech Quiz 7Direct Speech Quiz 8Direct Speech Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books