Direct-Indirect Speech Questions and Answers

Answer: A

Correct answer: He requested his father to increase his pocket-money.

Please marks the sentence as a request, so it is reported with requested… to + infinitive; the word please itself is not repeated, because requested already carries it. My becomes his. Asked is possible but weaker, and pleaded his father is not an English construction.

Answer: C

Correct answer: The little girl asked her mother if the sun rose in the East

A yes-or-no question takes asked… if, and the auxiliary did disappears with the question order, leaving rose. The options that report it as a statement drop the question altogether.

Answer: D

Correct answer: She said, “What a miserable plight it is.”

Working backwards: exclaimed with sorrow that it was a very miserable plight unpacks into an exclamation, and the intensifier very in the report corresponds to the what a…! pattern in the original. The other options change the noun or add words the report does not contain.

Answer: D

Correct answer: He told me that he expected me to attend the function

The present expect moves back one step, to the past simple expected - not two steps to had expected. The infinitive to attend does not shift at all, which is why to have attended and to attended both fail.

Answer: A

Correct answer: My cousin said that her room-mate had snored throughout the night

My becomes her, and the past simple snored moves back to the past perfect had snored. Complained and felt substitute an interpretation for what was actually said.

Answer: A

Correct answer: The man emphatically refused to confess guilt.

No at the head of the direct speech is a refusal, and the report carries it in the adverb emphatically attached to refused. Dropping that adverb loses the force of the No, and the option saying he was stubborn enough to confess reverses the meaning.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Dhruv said, “I am sick and tired of working for this company.”

Working backwards: he was sick and tired comes from I am sick and tired, and that company comes from this company. The option keeping that company leaves the report's own word in the direct speech.

Answer: A

Correct answer: He warned her calmly that he would shoot her if she did not keep quiet.

A threat is reported with warned. Shall becomes would, you becomes she, and I becomes he. The manner phrase in a calm voice becomes the adverb calmly. The option reading warned her to shoot reverses who would do the shooting.

Answer: D

Correct answer: He said, “Hurrah! India has won the Sahara Cup”

Working backwards: exclaimed with joy requires an interjection of joy in the original, which only Hurrah! supplies. Had won in the report comes from the present perfect has won.

Answer: A

Correct answer: I said to him, “You are not working hard.”

Working backwards: told him that he was not working hard gives you are not working hard, addressed to him. The option dropping to him loses the person addressed, and the one keeping he leaves the report's pronoun in the direct speech.