In the following section the sentences have been given in Direct or Indirect speech. From the given alternatives, choose the most appropriate sentence that best suits the given sentence in Indirect or Direct speech.
She exclaimed with sorrow that it was a very miserable plight.
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.
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He said to me,"I expect you to attend the function."
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.
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My cousin said, “My room-mate snored throughout the night.”
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.
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The man said, “No, I refuse to confess guilt.”
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.
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Dhruv said that he was sick and tired of working for that company.
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.
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“If you don’t keep quiet I shall shoot you,” he said to her in a calm voice.
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.
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He exclaimed with joy that India had won the Sahara Cup.
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.
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I told him that he was not working hard
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.
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He said,"Why didn't you send your application to me?"
Answer: B
Correct answer: He enquired why I had not sent my application to him.
A wh- question needs no if; the question word does that work. The auxiliary disappears with the statement order, and didn't send moves back to had not sent. You becomes I and me becomes him.
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His father ordered him to go to his room and study.
Answer: A
Correct answer: His father said, “Go to your room and study.”
Working backwards: ordered him to go to his room and study unpacks into an imperative, with his room becoming your room. The other options reorder the words or add a manner the report does not contain.
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