Direct and Indirect Speech

"May I borrow your camera for a week as I will have a research in Bandung?" asked Nina.

It means .......

• Nina asked might she borrow my camera for a week as she would have a research in Bandung

• Nina asked if she may borrow my camera for a week as she will have a research in Bandung

• Nina asked may she borrow my camera for a week as she would have a research in Bandung

• Nina asked she may borrowed my camera for a week as she would have a research in Bandung

• Nina asked whether she might borrow my camera for a week as she would have a research in Bandung

The secretary asked me __________ in order to have meeting with Mr. Santoso.

• did I have called her

• how was I called her

• whether I had called her

• when did I call her

• that I had called her

Teacher : Where have you collected your paper?

Student : On your table, sir.

The teacher asked the student _______

• where he has collected his paper

• where he collects his paper

• where he collected his paper

• where he had collected his paper

• where he was collecting his paper

My teacher advised me _______ on that problem.

• do not think too much

• not to think too much

• did not think too much

• not thinking too much

• not think too much

"Does the little girl understand what her mother is talking about?" he asked me.

He asked me _______

• if the little girl understood what her mother was talking about

• that the little girl understands what her mother is talking about

• does the little girl understand what her mother is talking about

• that the little girl understood what her mother was talking about

• whether the little girl understands what her mother is talking about

The young man forgot to ask _______

• if the girl will marry him

• whether the girl will have married him

• if the girl would have marry him

• whether the gril was willing to marry him

• would she marry him

"Weren't you invited to her 17th birthday party held in the convention center?" the girl asked the boy.

It means that the girl asked the boy _______

• if you were invited to her 17th birthday party held in the convention center

• that he had been invited to her 17th birthday party held in the convention center

• whether he had been invited to her 17th birthday party held in the convention center

• if you had been invited to her 17th birthday party held in the convention center

• whether he was invited to her 17th birthday party held in the convention center

Almost all the people attending the meeting ask me why I had canceled the meeting with our foreign client the night before.

The direct form of the sentence is _______

• "Why you canceled the meeting with our foreign client last night?"

• "Why did you cancel the meeting with our foreign client last night?"

• "Why have you canceled the meeting with our foreign client last night?"

• "Why had you canceled the meeting with our foreign client last night?"

• "Why you had canceled the meeting with our foreign client last night?"

He remembered asking me if I had always been picked up by my father.

The direct form of the sentence is _______

• "Did you always picked up by your father?"

• "Have you always picked up by your father?"

• "Have you always been picked up by your father?"

• Were you always picked up by your father?"

• "Are you always picked up by your father?"

"Did you join Mr. Budi previous class? If you did, I want to borrow your note and I will return it tomorrow," asked Nanda.

"Ok, but don't return it at school!" I answered.

The reported speech of the conversation is _______

• Nanda asked me wether I had joined Mr. Budi previous class and she said that if I had, she wanted to borrow my note and she would return that the following day. I said OK then asked her not to return that at school.

• Nanda asked me did I join Mr. Budi previous class and she said that if I did, she wants to borrow my note and she will return it the following day. And I said OK then asked her not to return that at school.

• Nanda asked me wether I had joined Mr. Budi previous class and she said that if I had, she wanted to borrow my note and she would return that the following day. I said OK then asked her not to return that at school.

• Nanda asked me wether I joined Mr. Budi previous class and she said that if I had, she wanted to borrow my note and she would return that the following day. I said OK then asked her not to return that at school.

• Nanda asked me wether I did join joined Mr. Budi previous class and she said that if I did, she want to borrow my note and she will return it tomorrow. I said OK then asked her not to return that at school.