Question : Select the most appropriate option to change the sentences from Direct Speech to Reported Speech.
Richa said, “They will be eating soon.”
Option 1: Richa said that they would eat soon.
Option 2: Richa said that they are eating.
Option 3: Richa said that they would be eating soon.
Option 4: Richa said that they will eat soon.
Correct Answer: Richa said that they would be eating soon.
Solution :
The correct answer is option 3.
Richa said that they would be eating soon.
Explanation:
The direct sentence is in the future continuous tense in order to convert it into indirect we need to follow the below rules.
Future Continuous (Subject + will/shall + V1 + ing + Object)
Conditional Continuous (Subject + would + be + V1 + ing + Object)
Ram said, “I will watch hereafter.”
Option 1: Ram said that he would watch hereafter.
Option 2: Ram said that he will watch thereafter.
Option 3: Ram said that he would watch thereafter.
Option 4: Ram said that he will watch hereafter.
Question : Select the most appropriate option to change the sentences from Direct Speech to Reported Speech. Rani said, “We went for a winter vacation.”
Option 1: Rani said that they went on a winter vacation.
Option 2: Rani said that they were on a winter vacation.
Option 3: Rani said that they had gone on a winter vacation.
Option 4: Rani said they went for a winter vacation.
“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.
Rucha said, “The sale ended yesterday.”
Option 1: Rucha said that the sale had ended yesterday.
Option 2: Rucha said that the sale ended the day before.
Option 3: Rucha said that the sale had ended the previous day.
Option 4: Rucha said that the sale ended already.
She said, “Let us have coffee here.”
Option 1: She proposed that we had coffee there.
Option 2: She asked if we wished to have coffee there.
Option 3: She said that we should have coffee there.
Option 4: She said that we had coffee there.
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