{"id":1795,"date":"2017-01-28T17:11:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T17:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2017-01-28T17:11:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T17:11:40","slug":"direct-and-indirect-speech-worksheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/direct-and-indirect-speech-worksheet\/","title":{"rendered":"Direct and indirect speech worksheet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rewrite the following sentences changing the direct speech to indirect speech and indirect speech to direct speech.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. The maid said, \u2018All the windows have been washed thoroughly.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>2. The mother told the children to stay away from the wet floor.<\/p>\n<p>3. The traveler asked the boy, \u2018Does this road lead to the inn?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>4. The doctor said to the patient, \u2018Take your medicines without fail.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>5. The clever fox said to the foolish crow, \u2018Will you sing a song for me?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>6. The manager said to the customers, \u2018The staff is on an indefinite strike\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>7. The young girl asked the man, \u2018Will you do me a favour?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>8. The fisherman said, \u2018I haven\u2019t caught any fish today.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>9. Mitra said, \u2018I go for a walk every morning.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>10. The actor said, \u2018My new film is due for release next month.\u2019<\/p>\n<h2>Answers<\/h2>\n<p>1. The maid said that all the windows <strong>had been washed<\/strong>\u00a0thoroughly.<\/p>\n<p>2. The mother said to the children, <strong>\u2018Stay away from the wet floor.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3. The traveler asked the boy if that road<strong> led<\/strong> to the inn.<\/p>\n<p>4. The doctor <strong>advised<\/strong> the patient to take his medicines without fail.<\/p>\n<p>5. The clever fox asked the foolish crow if she <strong>would<\/strong> sing a song for him.<\/p>\n<p>6. The manager told the customers that the staff<strong> was<\/strong> on an indefinite strike.<\/p>\n<p>7. The young girl asked the man if he<strong> would do<\/strong> her a favour.<\/p>\n<p>8. The fisherman said that he<strong> hadn\u2019t caught<\/strong> any fish that day.<\/p>\n<p>9. Mitra said that she <strong>goes \/ went<\/strong> for a walk every morning.<\/p>\n<p>10. The actor said that his new film <strong>was<\/strong> due for release the following month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rewrite the following sentences changing the direct speech to indirect speech and indirect speech to direct speech. 1. The maid said, \u2018All the windows have been washed thoroughly.\u2019 2. The mother told the children&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[390],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-8-worksheets","tag-reported-speech-worksheet-for-class-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1796,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}