Direct and Indirect Speech Quiz

Identify the direct speech in the following sentence: She said, 'I love to read.'

• She said, 'I love to write.'

• 'I love to read.'

• She said, 'I hate to read.'

• She said, 'I enjoy cooking.'

Identify the direct speech in the following sentence: 'Please pass me the salt,' said John.

• The salt was requested to be passed by John

• Please pass me the salt,

• Pass me the salt, John said

• John said to pass the salt please

Identify the indirect speech in the following sentence: He told me that he was going to the store.

• He tells me that

• He is going to the store

• He was going to the store

• He told me that

Identify the indirect speech in the following sentence: She said that she had finished her homework.

• She said that she will finish her homework.

• She said that she finishes her homework.

• She said that she had finished her homework.

• She said that she is finishing her homework.

Convert the direct speech 'I am going to the park,' said Tom into indirect speech.

• Tom said that he is going to the park.

• Tom said that he was going to the park.

• Tom said that he goes to the park.

• Tom said that he will go to the park.

Convert the direct speech 'I will come to your party,' she said to me into indirect speech.

• She said that she will not come to my party

• She told me that she would come to my party.

• She said to me that she will come to my party

• She said that she will come to my party

Convert the indirect speech He said that he was tired into direct speech.

• He said, 'I was not tired.'

• He said, 'I am exhausted.'

• He said, 'I am not tired.'

• He said, 'I am tired.'

Convert the indirect speech She told me that she would call me later into direct speech.

• She said, 'I called you later.'

• She said, 'I will call you later.'

• She said, 'I will call you later.'

• She said, 'She will call me later.'

Punctuate the following direct speech: Get out of here she shouted

• Get out of here; she shouted

• Get out of here! She shouted

• Get out of here, she shouted