direct & indirect speech section section 1 Detailed Explanation And More Example

Question : 1

I said to you, “He should not be trusted.”

a) I told you that he cannot be trusted.

b) I told you he shall not be trusted.

c) I told you that he should not be trusted.

d) I said to you do not trust him.

Question : 2

The clerk said to the visitor, “Shall I ask these people to wait for you?”

a) The clerk asked the visitor if he shall ask these people to wait for him.

b) The clerk asked the visitor if he had asked those people to wait for him.

c) The clerk told the visitor that he should ask these people to wait for him.

d) The clerk asked the visitor if he should ask those people to wait for him.

Question : 3

The doctor advised the patients to give up smoking.

a) The doctor said to the patients, “You should give up smoking.”

b) The doctor said to the patients, “Give up smoking.”

c) The doctor said to the patient, “I am advising you to give up smoking.”

d) The doctor said to the patients, “Why don’t you give up smoking?”

Question : 4

The boss said to him, “Please tell me what the old man said today.”

a) The boss requested him to tell him what the old man had said today.

b) The boss requested him to tell him what the old man said that day.

c) The boss requested him to tell him what the old man said today

d) The boss requested him to tell him what the old man had said that day.

Question : 5

He told Pawan that they should have tried harder.

a) He said, “Pawan you should have tried harder.”

b) He said, “Pawan, Don’t you think we should have tried harder.”

c) He said, “Pawan, we had tried harder.”

d) He said to Pawan, “We should have tried harder.”

Question : 6

They told us that they had waited at the station for a long time.

a) They told us, “We had been waiting at the station for a long time”.

b) They told us, “We are waiting at the station for a long time”.

c) They told us, “We wait at the station for a long time.”

d) They told us, “We waited at the station for a long time”.