Direct and Indirect Speech Quiz

What is direct speech?

• Direct speech is when someone is using indirect language

• Direct speech is when someone is speaking loudly

• Direct speech is when someone is talking to themselves

• Direct speech is when someone is directly quoting what someone else has said, using quotation marks.

Give an example of direct speech.

• He said, 'The sky is green.'

• She said, 'I love to read.'

• They said, 'We are happy to help.'

• She said, 'I am going to the store.'

What is indirect speech?

• Quoting someone directly

• Reporting someone else's words without quoting them directly

• Using hand gestures while talking

• Speaking loudly and clearly

Provide an example of indirect speech.

• I said that I have been to Mars last year.

• She said that she was going to the store.

• They said that they will never eat pizza again.

• He said that he is going to the moon.

Rewrite the following direct speech into indirect speech: She said, 'I am going to the park.'

• She said that she is going to the park.

• She said that she was going to the park.

• She said that she goes to the park.

• She said that she will go to the park.

Rewrite the following indirect speech into direct speech: He told me that he was going to the store.

• He said, 'I have been to the store.'

• He said, 'I will be going to the store.'

• He said, 'I am going to the park.'

• He said, 'I am going to the store.'

Identify the direct speech in the following sentence: The teacher said, 'Please open your books.'

• Please open your books.

• The teacher asked

• The teacher said

• Open your books

Identify the indirect speech in the following sentence: She told me that she had finished her homework.

• She tells me that she has finished her homework yesterday.

• She told me that she had finished her homework.

• She tells me that she will finish her homework.

• She told me that she is finishing her homework.

Change the following direct speech into a question: He said, 'I am going to the party.'

• Did he go to the party?

• Is he not going to the party?

• Is he going to the party?

• He said, 'I am going to the party'?

Change the following indirect speech into a statement: She told me that she would come to the concert.

• She said, 'I am coming to the concert.'

• She said, 'I am coming to the party.'

• She said, 'I will come to the concert.'

• She said, 'I am going to the concert.'