POST TEST DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH

Mr. Johnson asked Mary, “When can you finish the letter?”

    Mr. Johnson asked Mary …

• When can you finish the letter

• When can she finish the letter

• When you can finish the letter

• When she could finish the letter

Which of the following sentences is correctly punctuated?

• The headmaster warned the students, ‘pay your school fee not later than the tenth every month’.

• The headmaster warned the students: pay your school fee not later than the tenth every month.

• The headmaster warned the students, ‘pay your school fee not later than the tenth every month!’

• The headmaster warned the students, pay your school fee not later than the tenth every month.

The secretary asked me … with Mr. Slamet.

• did I have an appointment

• how was my appointment

• whether I had an appointment

• when is my appointment

This is the bag which I bought yesterday.

• He said that was the bag which he had been bought the day before.

• He said that was the bag which I bought the day before.

• He said that the bag was which he had buy the day before.

• He said that was the bag which I had been bought the day before.

Window-shopping is my favorite hobby.

• Septi said that window-shopping is her favorite hobby.

• Septi said that if window-shopping was my favorite hobby.

• Septi said that window-shopping was my favorite hobby.

• Septi said that window-shopping was her favorite hobby.

Tony said to me, "Why does she sing so loudly?"

• Tony said to me why does she sing so loudly.

• Tony asked me why did she sing so loudly.

• Tony asked me why does she sing so loudly.

• Tony asked me why she sang so loudly.

The woman said to him, "You play the piano well."

The girl said to him that...

• you play the piano well

• he play the piano well

• he plays the piano well

• he played the piano well

"We have been here for a week."

• They said that they had been there for 3 week.

• They said that we had been here for a week.

• They said that they had been here for a week.

• They said that we had been there for a week.

"Where did ypu go four days ago?" Tony asked.

Tony asked me...

• where did I go four days ago

• where I did go four days ago

• where I had gone four days before

• where I had gone four days ago

Fairuz said to me, "Shall I go now?".

We can conclude that..

• Fairuz asked me that he should go then.

• Fairuz asked me that he should go now.

• Fairuz asked me if he should go now.

• Fairuz asked me whether he should go then.