This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Speech > Tense Sequence In Reported Speech – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Tense Sequence In Reported Speech Quiz 4 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Present simple, in reported speech changes to ..... A) Past simple. B) Present simple. C) Present perfect. D) Present continuous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Past simple. 2. "Don't touch the wire!" the electrician warned. Choose the correct reported speech: A) The electrician warned to not touch the wire. B) The electrician warned not to touch the wire. C) The electrician warned that don't touch the wire. D) The electrician warned about touching the wire. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The electrician warned not to touch the wire. 3. The old lady said to the girl, "Where do you come from?" A) The old lady asked the girl where she came from. B) The old lady asked the girl where she come from. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The old lady asked the girl where she came from. 4. "Don't worry!" A) She told him not to worry. B) She asked him not to worry. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She told him not to worry. 5. Identify the correct transformation of the following sentence into reported speech:'Do you like ice cream?' he asked. A) He asked if I like ice cream. B) He asked if I liked ice cream. C) He asked do I like ice cream. D) He asked did I like ice cream. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He asked if I liked ice cream. 6. "Be careful, " she said. She told me A) To be careful. B) That I am careful. C) That I was careful. D) That I would be careful. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To be careful. 7. What does tonight change into in indirect speech? A) This night. B) The previous night. C) That night. D) No change. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) That night. 8. Tom told me that they ..... meat since ..... A) Have not eaten / last year. B) Did not eat / the following year. C) Had not eaten / the year before. D) Would not eat / the next year. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had not eaten / the year before. 9. "My mother is taking the bus to work tomorrow" . He said. A) He told me that his mother is taking the bus to work the next day. B) He told me that his mother was taking the bus to work the next day. C) He told me that his mother will take the bus to work the next day. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He told me that his mother was taking the bus to work the next day. 10. She warned me ..... late-night horror films. A) Don't watch. B) Shouldn't watch. C) Not to watch. D) Not watching. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not to watch. 11. "You must do what you are told" .She said ..... A) That must do what I was told. B) What have to do what I was told. C) That she must do what she was told. D) She had to do what she was told. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She had to do what she was told. 12. Complete the reported sentence:Mary "I love chocolate."Jerry: "Mary said (that) she ..... chocolate." A) Loved. B) Loves. C) Loving. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Loved. 13. "She is the most beatifull girl in the world" he said.He said that ..... the most beautifull girl in the world. A) She was. B) She is. C) She were. D) She are. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She was. 14. "I'm going to do the dubbing for the new Disney film", she said (that) A) She was doing the dubbing for the new Disney film. B) She was going to do the dubbing for the new Disney film. C) She is going to do the dubbing for the new Disney film. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She was going to do the dubbing for the new Disney film. 15. They said, "We have just arrived." A) They said that they have just arrived. B) They said that they had just arrived. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They said that they had just arrived. 16. A:What did Jeff say when he called last week?B: ..... A) That it's raining. B) That it must rain. C) That it has been raining. D) That it was raining. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) That it was raining. 17. In indirect speech Past continuous changes into A) Past Perfect. B) Past Participle Continuous. C) Past Simple. D) Past Perfect Continuous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Past Perfect Continuous. 18. "Everybody likes comedy films"", he said (that) A) Everybody liked comedy films. B) Everybody likes to watch comedy films. C) Everybody doesn't like comedy films. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Everybody liked comedy films. 19. Leonardo:I will wear your sunglassesLeonardo said (that) ..... A) He would wear my sunglasses. B) He would wear his sunglasses. C) He would wear your sunglasses. D) I would wear your sunglasses. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He would wear my sunglasses. 20. "I can cook as well as my mother", Hoa said. A) Hoa said she could cook as well as my mother. B) Hoa said she can cook as well as my mother. C) Hoa says she could cook as well as her mother. D) Hoa said she could cook as well as her mother. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hoa said she could cook as well as her mother. 21. "I don't like mushrooms" Adriana said. A) She said that she don't like mushrooms. B) She said that she didn't liked mushrooms. C) She said that she didn't like mushrooms. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She said that she didn't like mushrooms. 22. Ahmed asked, "what are you doing?" A) Ahmed asked what you were doing. B) Ahmed asked what were you doing?. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ahmed asked what you were doing. 23. Lena said, "Where have you been yesterday?" Lena asked ..... A) Where she had been the day before. B) Where she had been yesterday. C) Where she was the day before. D) Where she could be the day before. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Where she had been the day before. 24. Report this imperative form: "Don't do that" A) She told us not to do that. B) She told us not doing that. C) She told us not to have done that. D) She said us not to do that. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She told us not to do that. 25. > "I don't like Monday mornings." Stewart said he ..... Monday mornings. A) Likes. B) Didn't like. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Didn't like. 26. Dad:'What? The other day I said I ..... my television on Saturday nights. I want to watch the Grand Prix.' A) Am taking back. B) Was taking back. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was taking back. 27. 'Paul is taking a part in a talent show in New York.' Tim said that Paul ..... A) Is taking a part in a talent show in NY. B) Was taking a part in a talent show in NY. C) Takes part in a talent show in NY. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was taking a part in a talent show in NY. 28. "Don't leave the backpack here" The teacher said A) The teacher told me not to leave thebackpack there. B) The teacher told me not to leave the backpack here. C) The teacher told me that I didn't leave the backpack there. D) The teacher told me to leave the backpack there. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The teacher told me not to leave thebackpack there. 29. He told me, "I have been to Spain." A) He told me that I had been to Spain. B) He told me that I have been to Spain. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He told me that I had been to Spain. 30. Leah: "How is your journey?"Leah asked me how ..... journey was A) My. B) Your. C) Her. D) His. 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