DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH: PRACTICE 2

Kiran asked me, "Did you see the Cricket match on television last night?"

• Kiran asked me whether I saw the Cricket match on television the earlier night
• Kiran asked me whether I had seen the Cricket match on television the earlier night
• Kiran asked me did I see the Cricket match on television the last night
• Kiran asked me whether I had seen the Cricket m

David said to Anna, "Mona will leave for her native place tomorrow."

• David told Anna that Mona will leave for her native place tomorrow.
• David told Anna that Mona left for her native  place the next day.
• David told Anna that Mona will be leaving for her native place tomorrow.
• David told Anna that Mona would leave for her native place tomorrow

I said to him, "why are you working so hard?"

• I asked him why he was working so hard
• I asked him why was he working so hard.
• I asked him why had he been working so hard.
• I asked him why he had been working so hard.

He said to her, "what a cold day!"

• He told her that it was a cold day.
• He exclaimed that it was a cold day.
• He exclaimed sorrowfully that it was a cold day.
• He exclaimed that it was a cold day.

He said, "be quite and listen to my words."

• He urged them to be quite and listen to his words.
• He urged them and said to them be quite and listen to his words.
• He urged they should be quite and listen to his words.
• He said you should be quite and listen to his words.

The Captain said to his men, "stand at ease."

• The Captain urged his men to stand at ease.
• The Captain wanted his men to stand at ease.
• The Captain told his man that they should stand at ease.
• The Captain commanded his men to stand at ease.

Pawan said to me, "if I hear any new, I'll phone you."

• Pawan told me that if he heard any news, he will phone me.
• Pawan told me that if he will hear my news, he will phone me.
• Pawan told me that if he had heard any news, he would phone me.
• Pawan told me that if he heard any news, he would phone me.

He told her, "I want to meet your father."

• He told her that I want to meet your father.
• He told her that he wanted to meet her father.
• He told her that he wanted to meet your father.
• He told her that she wanted to meet her father.

He says, "I don't want to play anymore."

• He says that he doesn't want to play anymore.
• He says that I don't want to play anymore.
• He says that I didn't want to play anymore.
• He says that he didn't want to play anymore.

The government has announced, "Taxes will be raised."

• The government has announced that taxes would be raised.
• The government has announced that taxes would raised.
• The government has announced that taxes will be raised.
• The government has announced taxes will be raised.