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Direct and indirect (reported) speech worksheets

Free direct and indirect speech exercises with answers: statements, questions, commands and requests, exclamations, and indirect to direct — reported speech worksheets for Class 6 to 10.

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Statements (Class 6–8)Questions (Class 7–9)Commands, requests and exclamations (Class 8–10)Indirect to direct (Class 8–10)

Statements

Class 6–8 · Worksheet 1 · set 15
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Change into indirect speech.

  1. The teacher said, “The Earth moves round the Sun.”
  2. Riya said, “I am tired.”
  3. The boy said, “I can swim.”
  4. Sita said, “I bought a dress yesterday.”
  5. She said, “I may come late.”
  6. Mother said, “The food is ready.”
  7. He said to me, “You are my friend.”
  8. Aman said, “I will go to Delhi tomorrow.”
  9. She said, “I am reading a book.”
  10. They said, “We have finished the work.”

Questions

Class 7–9 · Worksheet 2 · set 15
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Change into indirect speech.

  1. She said, “When will the train arrive?”
  2. She said to him, “Are you hungry?”
  3. I said to her, “Why are you crying?”
  4. Sita said to me, “Will you come to my party?”
  5. He said to them, “Did you see the match?”
  6. The doctor said to the patient, “How do you feel now?”
  7. The teacher said, “Who broke the window?”
  8. Riya said to Aman, “Can you help me?”
  9. He said to me, “What is your name?”
  10. The man said to the boy, “Do you know the way?”

Commands, requests and exclamations

Class 8–10 · Worksheet 3 · set 15
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Change into indirect speech.

  1. Mother said to me, “Close the door.”
  2. He said to me, “How clever you are!”
  3. He said to her, “Please help me.”
  4. She said to him, “Don’t make a noise.”
  5. He said, “What a beautiful flower!”
  6. She said, “Alas! I have lost my purse.”
  7. The officer said to the soldiers, “March forward.”
  8. They said, “Hurray! We have won the match.”
  9. Father said to us, “Don’t waste water.”
  10. The teacher said to the boy, “Sit down.”

Indirect to direct

Class 8–10 · Worksheet 4 · set 15
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Change into direct speech.

  1. He told me that he would come.
  2. The teacher told us to be quiet.
  3. The boy said that he could not swim.
  4. He requested me to lend him a pen.
  5. Aman said that he had lost his book.
  6. He asked me if I was ready.
  7. She asked him what he wanted.
  8. Mother told me not to go out.

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Questions

What changes in reported speech?

Usually the tense (one step back), the pronouns, and time and place words (now → then, here → there), and the reporting verb (said to → told / asked).

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