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Reported speech

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What type of reported speech?

a)

1 type

b)

2 types

2.

Indirect speech always uses commas and quotation marks every time in the sentence.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

When you will change direct speech to indirect speech sentences you must change the tense.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

What is the verb when you use will, can, and must in indirect speech sentence?

a)

would, could, have to

  

b)

will, could, must

c)

would, could, had to

d)

will, can, had to

5.

Change this sentence to indirect speech.

Testa said, “I learned English perfectly because I studied very hard.”

a)

Testa said she had learned English perfectly because she had studied very hard.

b)

Testa said she learned English perfectly because she had studied very hard.

c)

Testa said she have learned English perfectly because she have studied very hard.

d)

Testa said she have learned English perfectly because she had studied very hard.

6.

Change this sentence to indirect speech.

Doja tell, “I will go abroad for studying in a bachelor's degree in the Faculty of Arts next year.”

a)

Doja tell She would go abroad for studying in a bachelor's degree in the Faculty of Arts next year

b)

Doja told She would goes abroad for studying in a bachelor's degree in the Faculty of Arts next year.

c)

Doja told She will go abroad for studying in a bachelor's degree in the Faculty of Arts next year.

 

d)

Doja told She would go abroad for studying in a bachelor's degree in the Faculty of Arts next year.

7.

What is the change in the types of tense in this sentence?

Direct = We lived in China for five years.

Indirect = She told me they had lived in China for five years.

a)

Present simple to Past simple

b)

Past perfect to Past perfect

c)

Past simple to Past perfect

d)

Past perfect to Past perfect

8.

What is correct about direct speech?

a)

Not use full stop in the end of the sentence.

b)

Changing the tense every time.

c)

Cannot use direct speech in the past.

d)

Using commas and quotation.

9.

Changing this sentence to indirect speech.

Mary feeds her cat with salmon every morning.

(a)  

10.

What are the types of reported speech of this sentence?

Kru Teanchai said, “I am a very cool and handsome guy.”

a)

Indirect speech

b)

Direct speech