Question : Select the most appropriate option to change the sentences from Direct Speech to Reported Speech.
“Alas! It can’t be this expensive.” Reshma said.
Option 1: Reshma exclaimed with sorrow that that couldn’t be that expensive.
Option 2: Reshma grieved that it couldn’t be that expensive.
Option 3: Reshma said that it was really that expensive.
Option 4: Reshma said with sorrow that that was expensive.
Correct Answer: Reshma exclaimed with sorrow that that couldn’t be that expensive.
Solution :
The correct answer is option 1.
Reshma exclaimed with sorrow that that couldn’t be that expensive.
Explanation:
In reporting exclamations and wishes, the verbs expressing exclamation or wish are added.
When the reporting or principal verb is in the present tense, all present tenses of the direct are changed into the corresponding past tenses.
Can will change into couldn't.
Question : In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best express the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.
Jack said, "Oh! It's a bad weather. I can't swim."
Option 1: Jack exclaimed with sorrow that it was a bad weather and he can't swim.
Option 2: Jack exclaimed with sorrow that it was a bad weather and he was not to swim.
Option 3: Jack exclaimed with sorrow that it was a bad weather and he couldn't swim.
Option 4: Jack exclaims with sorrow that it was a bad weather and he couldn't swim.
The teacher said, “You are notorious!.”
Option 1: The teacher exclaimed that I am notorious.
Option 2: The teacher exclaimed to me to notorious.
Option 3: The teacher informed me that I was notorious.
Option 4: The teacher exclaimed that I was notorious.
Question : Select the most appropriate direct form of the given sentence. The doctor exclaimed with relief that he didn’t need to go out in the rain.
Option 1: The doctor said, “Thank God! I needn’t go out in the rain.”
Option 2: The doctor said with relief, “He didn’t needed to go out in the rain.”
Option 3: The doctor exclaimed, “Oh, I don’t have to go out in the rain!”
Option 4: The doctor said relieved, “I needn’t to go out in the rain.”
“I am going shopping tonight,” Esha said.
Option 1: Esha said that she was going shopping tonight.
Option 2: Esha said that she was going shopping that night.
Option 3: Esha said she was going shopping that night.
Option 4: Esha said that she will be going shopping that night.
He said, “I have been a great employee.”
Option 1: He said that he had been a great employee.
Option 2: He said that he was a great employee.
Option 3: He exclaimed that he was a great employee.
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Option 4: He said that he has been a great employee.
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