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IEO Class 4

The document provides information about direct and indirect speech. It discusses how direct speech uses exact words from the speaker within quotation marks, while indirect speech reports what was said without quotation marks. When changing from direct to indirect speech, verb tenses and pronouns change according to specific rules. Some examples of these changes are also provided.

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IEO Class 4

The document provides information about direct and indirect speech. It discusses how direct speech uses exact words from the speaker within quotation marks, while indirect speech reports what was said without quotation marks. When changing from direct to indirect speech, verb tenses and pronouns change according to specific rules. Some examples of these changes are also provided.

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Direct annd
Indirect.Speech11 Chapter

pirect Speech
In direct speech, we use the actual
words of the
actual ords, as spoken, put within quotation speaker. The
are
npn
of close inverted commas) and
and close
open and
marks (pairs
separated a by comma.
IndirectSpeech
indirect speech, we report What another person
ln
has said,
e also Called as reported speech and so

are not used.


thus, the exact words as
spoken,
The reported speech or Indirect speech does not hence have any
tation marks (pairs of open and close inverted
comma to separate the speech from the reportingcommas) or
part of the
centence. The pronouns and the verb undergo changes.
Tense-change in Indirect speech
While changing from Direct Speech to Indirect Speech, the verbs
inthe Indirect Speech, change their tense as mentioned below:
Present simple > Past simple
Present Continuous Past continuous
Present Perfect Past perfect
Present Perfect Continuous > Past perfect continuous

Past simple Past Perfect


Past Continuous Past Perfect Continuous
Past Perfect Past Perfect
Futuresimple, (will) would
FutureContinuous, (will be) would be
FuturePerfect, (will have) would have

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Pronouns-change:

from Direct Speech to Indirect


irect Speech, the
While changing
change as mentioned below
pronouns undergo
Direct speech.... Indirect speech
. . he/she
we.. they
you. he/she
this... that
that.. that
these.. those
those.. those
yesterday.. the previous day/the day before
today.. that day
tomorroW.. the next day.
now... then
here.. there
next week.... the following week

Note
No change in Indirect Speech(IS) if the Direct Speech(DS)
mentions universal truth or a habitual action expression.

Example:
1. The boy said, "God is everywhere." (DS)
The boy said that God is everywhere. (IS)
2. She said, "I drink milk everyday." (DS)
She said that she drinks milk everyday.
(1s)

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English Olympiad Resource
Book
Exercise
P r a c t i c e E x e r c i s e

Select theecorrect options showing change of sentences


rom the irect to the Indirect.speech.
Mother said to him, "You have done well."
Al Mother said that you have done well.
aMother said that l had done well.
Mother said thathe has done well.
said that he had done well.
(D) Mother
Venu said to Ravi, "You are my friend"
2.
(A) Venu said that | was his friend,
(B) Venu said that Ravi is his friend.
C)Venu said that you are my friend,
(D) Venu said to RavI that he was his friend.
I said to him, "I went to the park"
3.
(A) I said to him that T had gone to the park.
(B) Isaid to him that Igo to the park.
IC) Isaid to him that he goes
to the park.
(D) Isaid to him that he went
to the park.
4. The fox said, "These grapes are sour."
(A) The fox said that these
grapes are sour.
(B) The fox said that those
grapes were sour.
(C) The fox said that those
grapes are sour.
(D) The fox said that these
grapes were sour.
5. Ramya said, "I can do this work."
(A) Ramya said that I can do
this work.
(B) Ramya said that she
can do this work.
(C) Ramya said that she could
0)
do that work.
Ramya said thatl could do
that work.

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her younger brother,


You will come with me"
6. Sita said to
younger brother that will come withme.
I rma
Sita said to her
(A) brother that he would p
(B) Sita said to her younger with
her.
brother that she will come
C) Sita said to heryounger with
him.
(D) Sita said to her younger brother that he would Come
e
with me.

7. Balu said, "l doing sums now"


am

(A) Balu said that I am doing sums now.


(B) Balu said that I was doing sums then.
(C) Balu said that he was doing sums then.
(D) Balu said that he is doing sums now.
8. Ramesh said, "I have a party at home"
(A) Ramesh said that he has a party at home.
(B Ramesh said that I have a party at home.
(C) Ramesh said that I am having a party at home.
(D) Ramesh said that he had a party at home.
9. Sudha said to me, "You did not do the work"
(A) Sudha said to me that I have not done the work,
(B) Sudha said to me that she has not done the work.
(C) Sudha said that I had not done the work.
(D) Sudha said to me that I did not do the work.
10. Roshan said to his brother, "You were watching television
instead of studying."
(A) Roshan said that you had been watching television
instead of studying.
(B) Roshan said that I had been watching televison instead
of studying
C) Roshan said that his brother had been watching
television instead of studying.
() Roshan said that he has been watching television
instead of studying.

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English Olymplad
Resource Book
The teacher said to the
teachers proud." students, "ou have made
te your
(A) The teacher said to the
your teachers proud. students that you have
made
(8) The teacher said that he had
(C) The teacher told to the made his teachers
C) The students that proud.
their teachers proud. they had made
The teacher said that we
had made
The
our
teachers said to Kamala, "We will see teachers proud.
12 homework." your
The teachers said that I will see your
homework.
teachers said that he would see his
(B) The
(C) The teachers said that they would
see
homework.
oThe teachers said to Kamala that theyyour homework.
would see
homework. her
mother said to her sons, "I will
make toast for your
13. breakfast."

The mother said that we will make toast for


our
breakfast.
l The mother said that she would make toast for his
breakfast.

The mother said to her sons that she would make toast
(C) for their breakfast.
The mother said that they would make toast for their
(D)
breakfast.

The driver said to us, "I will drop you at the gate."
14.
(A The driver said that he would drop them at the gate.

(B) The driver said drop you at the gate.


that we will

IC The driver said that he will drop them at the gate.


would drop us at the gate.
(D) The driver said that he

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Amit, "You can begin your work"


15. Rita said to
that Amit could begin his work.
(A) Rita said
that she can begin her work
(8) Rita said
said that I can begin my work.
(C) Rita we could begin our work,
(D) Rita said that
Praveen said to
me, "| drew your picture well
16.
(A) Praveen said that he had drawn my picture well

(8) Praveen said that I


drew his picture well
(C) Praveen said that drew the picture
I well,
(D) Praveen said
that he had drawn his picture well.
17. He said to his friends, "We are holding the party for
He said that he was holding the party for S. you"
(A)
(B) He said that they were olding the party for us.
(C) He said that they were holding the party for us.
(D) He said that they were holding the party for them
"You stood first in your clae.
18, My cousins said to me,
(A) My cousins said that they stood first in their calss.
me that I had stood first in my el.
(B) My cousins told class.
class,
cousins said that you had stood first in vour
(C) My
My cousins said that they had stood first in their clats
(D)
The President says to us, "We are a great nation
19.
The President said that they were a great nation.
(A)
that we are a great nation.
(B) The President says
that they are a great nation.
(C) The President says
that they were a great nation.
(D) The President says
"1
20. The boy said to his sisters, always buy you chocolates
The boy said that he always buys them chocolates.
(A)
them chocolates
(B) The boy said that he always bought
you chocolates.
(C) The boy said that I always bought us
(D) The boy said that he always bought chocolates

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English Olympiad Resource Book

elect the correct options


showing change of sentences
from the Indirect to the Direct Speech.

Rohan aid that he is taller than me.


21. IA) Rohan said to me, "You are taller than me."
(A)
(B) Rohan said to me, "l am taller than you"
(C) Rohan said to me, 1 was taller than you"
(D) Rohan said to me, "You were taller than me."
Rohan saidthat I am cleverer than him.
22.
Rohan said to me, "You were cleverer than me."
(A)
IsaidRohan, "l am cleverer than you"
to
(B)
Rohan said to me, "He was cleverer than me."
(C)
Rohan said to me, "You are cleverer than me."
(D)
Mother said to me that she thought I had caught a cold.
23. "You thinkI catch a cold."
Mother said,
(A)
l Mother said, "I think you have caught a cold"

C)Mother said, "1 think you catcha cold"


Mother said, "You think I will catch a cold"
(D)
They Said to us that we had given them a warm welcome.
"Yougave us a warm welcome."
(A) They said,
"We have given you a warm welcome."
(B) They said to us,
"You had given us a warm welcome."
C They said, welcome."
to us, "We had given us a warm
(D) They said
them that they look very modest to him.
5, He says to
modest to me."
(A) He says, "You look very
modest to them."
(B) He says, "You looked very
look very modest to me."
CHesays, "They
modest to us."
(D) He says, "We look very

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Choose the correct options showing cha


following sentences into reported speech, change of
26. She said, "I shall come in a few minutes"

(A) She said she will come.


(B) She said that she would come in a few minutec
(C) She said I will come.

(D) Iwill come she said.


27. They said, "It is raining heavily".
(A) They said it is raining.
(B) it is raining they said.
(C) They said that it was raining heavily.
(D) They said that it rained.

28. He said to me, "Please save my life".


(A) Please save his life he said.
(B) My life please save he said to me.
(C) He said to save my life.
(D) He requested me to save his life.

29. The teacher said to him, "Do you notice any


change p
(A) The teacher asked him if he noticed any change.
(B) The teacher said did he notice any change.
(C) She asked if he find any change.
(D) To him the teacher said if he find any change.
30. The director said to him "Obey your seniors"
(A) He said him to obey seniors.
(B) The director advised him to obey his seniors.
(C) Seniors should be obeyed he told him.
(D) He asked if he obey his seniors.

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