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Practice Time 1

A. Change the speech of these sentences from direct to indirect.

1. She said, “I teach English online.”
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2. I said to Tarun, “I have been waiting for you?”

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3. Chetan said, “I am going to China next month.”

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4. Abela told us, “I am from Iceland.”

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5. They said, “We want a salary raise.”
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6. My aunt said, “I am going to Mongolia.”
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7. He said, “My name is Sunil.”
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8. Aunt Megha said, “We can all go in my car.”
Direct and Indirect Speech
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9. Indians say, “We are proud of our ancient culture.”

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10. The teacher said to the students, “You should work hard to get success.”
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Conversion of Interrogative Sentences
Interrogative sentences ask questions and end with a question mark. To convert an

interrogative sentence into reported speech:
remove the quotation marks and the question mark.

use if or whether if the sentence inside the quotation marks begins with an auxiliary verb
and use question words such as what, when, where, why, who, etc. if it does not begin with
an auxiliary verb.
omit the use of that and helping verbs do, does, did.

change the reported verb say or said to ask or enquire.

For example:
David said to Stanley, “Do you like apples?” (direct speech)
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David asked Stanley if he liked apples. (indirect speech)
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