Direct / Indirect Speech

What is Direct Speech?

• The reporting of speech by using similar words to the speaker.

• The reporting of speech by rephrasing what the speaker said.

• The reporting of speech by repeating the exact words of the speaker.

• The reporting of speech at the exact time it was said.

What is Indirect Speech?

• Expresses what was said without using the exact words.

• Expresses what was said using the exact words.

• Where someone else expresses what was said.

• Where someone expresses their own words.

Quotation Marks/Speech Marks are used in which kind of speech?

Convert the following statement: "I've broken your glass," Tim said to me.

• Tim told me that he had broken my glass.

• Tim said to me that I have broken your glass.

• Tim said to me that he has broken my glass.

• Tim told me that he has broken my glass.

Convert the followiing statement: "Sameen said to her father,"Alas! I didn't get the job."

• Sameen exlaimed to her father with happiness that she had not got the job.

• Sameen exclaimed to her father with sorrow that she had not got the job.

• Sameen told her father that she didn't get job.

• None of the above

Select the rightly punctuated sentences:

• “Do you want any sweets?” my dad asked. “I’m just about to go to the shop.”

• “Do you want any sweets? my dad asked”. I’m just about to “go to the shop.”

• Do you want any sweets? “my dad asked”. “I’m just about to go to the shop.”

• “Do you want any sweets?” “my dad asked.” I’m just about to go to the shop.

Convert the following sentence: Dad said, "You should tidy up your rooms now."

• Dad said that they should tidy up their rooms then.

• Dad said that they should tidy up your rooms then.

• Dad said that they should tidy up their rooms now.

• Dad said they should tidy up their rooms then.

Convert the following sentence: The students said, "We are working hard for the International Festival."

• The students said that they are working hard for the International Festival.

• The students said that they were working hard for the International Festival.

• The students said that we were working hard for the International Festival.

• The students said they are working hard for the International Festival.

While changing from direct to indirect speech, we change the present continuous tense to _______________ tense.

In Indirect Speech, we make the following changes -

• keep the speaker's words & drop the quotation marks

• change the speaker's words & drop the quotation marks

• change the speaker's words & keep the quotation marks

• drop the quotation marks