{"id":194,"date":"2014-06-01T18:30:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T18:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2014-06-01T18:30:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T18:30:35","slug":"direct-and-indirect-speech-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/direct-and-indirect-speech-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Direct and indirect speech exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sentences are given in direct speech. Change them into indirect speech.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. \u2018When are you leaving for Chennai?\u2019 Shyam asked me.<\/p>\n<p>2. \u2018Was there a big crowd at the meeting?\u2019 asked the man.<\/p>\n<p>3. \u2018Is Mohan present in the room?\u2019 the teacher asked.<\/p>\n<p>4. \u2018Do you expect to get a raise this year?\u2019 my wife asked me.<\/p>\n<p>5. Lakshmi said, \u2018I\u2019m leaving.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>6. He said to Raju, \u2018Please wait here till I return.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>7. \u2018Don\u2019t spend all your money on gadgets,\u2019 Mrs. John told her son.<\/p>\n<p>8. \u2018When did you leave school?\u2019 the man asked the boy.<\/p>\n<p>9. \u2018Will you buy my hair?\u2019 Della asked Madame.<\/p>\n<p>10. \u2018Where have you been all day?\u2019 the father asked his daughter.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Answers<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>1. Shyam asked me when I<strong> was leaving<\/strong> for Chennai.<\/p>\n<p>2. The man asked <strong>if \/ whether there was<\/strong> a big crowd at the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>3. The teacher <strong>asked if \/ whether Mohan was<\/strong> present in the room.<\/p>\n<p>4. My wife <strong>asked me if \/ whether I expected<\/strong> to get a raise.<\/p>\n<p>5. Lakshmi<strong> said that she was leaving<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>6. He requested Raju <strong>to wait there till he returned.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>7. Mrs. John <strong>advised her son not to spend<\/strong> all his money on gadgets.<\/p>\n<p>8. The man <strong>asked the boy when he had left<\/strong> school.<\/p>\n<p>9. Della asked Madame <strong>if \/ whether she would buy<\/strong> her hair.<\/p>\n<p>10. The father asked his daughter where she <strong>had been all day.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sentences are given in direct speech. Change them into indirect speech. 1. \u2018When are you leaving for Chennai?\u2019 Shyam asked me. 2. \u2018Was there a big crowd at the meeting?\u2019 asked the man. 3.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar-exercises","tag-direct-and-indirect-speech-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}