Direct And Indirect Speech MCQ For Class 10

Below each sentence in direct speech, four options are given. From the given options, choose the one that correctly expresses the given idea in indirect speech. You can learn the rules of indirect speech here.

Direct and indirect speech MCQ for class 10

1. ‘Leave at once,’ said the teacher.

a) The teacher asked that they leave at once.

b) The teacher told them to leave at once.

c) The teacher said that they leave at once.

d) The asked that they should leave at once.

Answer: b

2. ‘Susan lives alone in that house,’ said Mary.

a) Mary told that Susan lived alone in that house.

b) Mary said that Susan lives alone in that house.

c) Mary said that Susan lived alone in that house.

d) Mary said that Susan was living alone in that house.

Answer: c

3. ‘Why are you late?’ said the teacher to me.

a) The teacher asked why am I late.

b) The teacher asked why were I late.

c) The teacher said why I was late.

d) The teacher asked why I was late.

Answer: d

4. ‘Can you do me a favour?’ Clara asked Rohit.

a) Clara said to Rohit if he could do her a favour.

b) Clara asked Rohit if he could do her a favour.

c) Clara asked Rohit could he do her a favour.

d) Clara said to Rohit can he do her a favour.

Answer: b

5. ‘What are you searching for?’ mother asked the boy.

a) Mother told the boy what was he searching for.

b) Mother asked the boy what he was searching for.

c) Mother said to the boy what was he searching for.

d) Mother told the boy what are you searching for.

Answer: b

6. ‘I want to find a better job,’ she told me.

a) She told me that she wants to find a better job.

b) She asked me that she wanted to find a better job.

c) She told me that she wanted to find a better job.

d) She was telling me that she wanted to find a better job.

Answer: c

7. ‘You should help the underprivileged,’ the teacher said to the students.

a) The teacher asked the students that they should help the underprivileged.

b) The teacher exhorted the students to help the underprivileged.

c) The teacher told the students that they help the underprivileged.

d) The teacher said to the students to help the underprivileged.

Answer: b

8. ‘Can you help me?’ Shyam said to Maya.

a) Shyam asked Maya if she could help him.

b) Shyam asked Maya that she could help him.

c) Shyam asked Maya if she can help him.

d) Shyam asked Maya weather she can help him.

Answer: a

9. ‘I have been robbed,’ said the traveller.

a) The traveller cried that he has been robbed.

b) The traveller cried that he had been robbed.

c) The traveller asked that he had been robbed.

d) The traveller exclaimed that he was robbed.

Answer: b

10. ‘I should have been more careful,’ the traveller said.

a) The traveller said that he could have been more careful.

b) The traveller said that I should have been more careful.

c) The traveller lamented that he should have been more careful.

d) The traveller told that he should have been more careful.

Answer: c