WorksheetsDirect and Indirect Speech
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What type of speech is this? “I kept wondering: Which way would I have gone if I had not waited?” (Jackson, 18)
Direct Speech
Indirect Speech
Original text
Reported Speech
Change the original statement into direct speech: “I kept wondering: Which way would I have gone if I had not waited?” (Jackson, 18)
Jackson: “I kept wondering: Which way would I have gone if I had not waited?”
Jackson, 18: “I kept wondering: Which way would I have gone if I had not waited?”
Jackson wondered which way he would have gone if he had not waited.
Jackson said, “I kept wondering: which way would I have gone if I had not waited?”
Change the original statement into DIRECT SPEECH: “No! I will not submit! I will struggle first!” (Zitkala-Sa, 27)
Zitkala-Sa, 27: “No! I will not submit! I will struggle first!”
Zitkala-Sa: “No! I will not submit! I will struggle first!”
Zitkala-Sa cried, “No! I will not submit! I will struggle first!”
Zitkala-Sa cried that she would not submit, and would struggle first.
Identify the ORIGINAL STATEMENT of this indirect speech: Maya Angelou once said that we may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou said that: “She may encounter many defeats but she must not be defeated.”
Maya Angelou: “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”
Maya Angelou said, “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”
Maya Angelou said that we may encounter defeats, but we must not be defeated.
Identify the ORIGINAL TEXT in the following.
Abraham Lincoln said, “I’m entrusted of the ability to govern, and he believe he can help”
Abraham Lincoln: “I’m entrusted of the ability to govern, and I believe I can help”
Abraham Lincoln was entrusted of the ability to govern and that he believed he could help.
Abraham Lincoln said that he was entrusted of the ability to govern and that he believed he could help.
It is the type of system in reported speech where the original statement is directly reported.
Indirect speech
Direct speech
Passive voice
Active voice
Change the original statement into DIRECT SPEECH: “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” -Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein stated that: “He wants to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things”
Albert Einstein: “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
Albert Einstein stated, “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
Albert Einstein stated that if you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
Identify the type of this speech: "That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Direct Speech
Indirect speech
Original Text
Reported speech
It is the type of system in reported speech where the messages are reported with concerns in forms and meanings.
Active voice
Passive voice
Direct speech
Indirect speech
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."
-Albert Einstein
is what type of speech?
Original text
Direct text
Indirect text
Reported speech
What are the two parts of a Direct and Indirect speech?
Reporting and reported clause
Dependent and independent clause
Simple and complex clause
Compound and complex clause
What are the three most common parts of a DIRECT SPEECH?
Subject, Direct and Indirect Object
Subject, Verb, and Adjective
Speaker, Verb, and Message
Message, Noun, and Adverb
What are the two types of reported speech?
simple and complex speech
active and passive speech
lower and upper reported speech
direct and indirect speech
Change the pronouns.
Change the tense.
Change the reporting verb.
These are?
Basic Grammar rules.
Steps to convert direct speech into indirect speech.
Grammatical pattern of a direct speech.
Grammar steps
Subject is the (a) of the sentence.
