Indirect Speech

Indirect speech is also known as what?

• Repeated speech

• Repeated statements

• Reported speech

• Reported statements

Tags

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.3.2C

Speech marks are needed for what?

• Direct Speech

• Indirect Speech

Tags

CCSS.L.5.2D

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.3.2C

Convert the following sentence into indirect speech: The police man said to the boy, "Where do you live?"

• "Where do you live?", the policeman asked the boy.

• The policeman asked the boy where he lived.

• When speaking to the boy, the policeman asked where do you live?

• The policeman wanted to know where the boy lives.

Convert the followiing statement into direct speech: She asked the teacher when they could eat their snacks.

• The teacher was asked when the girl could eat her snacks.

• When can we eat our snacks?

• "When can we eat our snacks? She asked"

• She asked the teacher, "When can we eat our snacks?"

Tags

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.3.2C

Which of these sentences has punctuated speech correctly?

• “We’re going to the theme park!” the little boy exclaimed.
• We’re going to the “theme park!” the little boy exclaimed.
• We’re going to the theme park! “the little boy exclaimed.”
• “We’re going to the theme park! the little boy exclaimed.”

Tags

CCSS.L.4.3B

CCSS.L.1.2B

CCSS.L.K.2B

Which of these sentences has punctuated speech correctly?

• “Thank you for helping me with my homework,” said Will.
• “Thank you for helping me” with my homework, said Will.
• Thank you for helping me “with my homework,” said Will.
• “Thank you for helping” me with my homework, said Will.

We asked them, "Will you go to the movie with us?"

• We asks them whether they will go to the movie with us.

• We asks them whether they would go to the movie with us.

• We asked them whether they would go to the movie with us.

• We asked them whether they will go to the movie with us.

"Do you want to buy anything?" She asked him.

• She asked him did he want to buy anything.

• She asked him that did he want to buy anything.

• She asked him if did he want to buy anything.

• She asked him if he wanted to buy anything.

"I've broken your glass," Tim said to me.

• Tim told me that he had broken my glass.

• Tim said to me that I have broken your glass.

• Tim said to me that he has broken my glass.

• Tim told me that he has broken my glass.

"What are you doing?" the policeman said to me.

• The policeman asked if what I was doing.

• The policeman asked what I was doing.

• The policeman asked me what I was doing.

• The policeman said to me what I was doing.