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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 78
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Change into indirect speech.

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

Questions

Class 7–9 · Worksheet 2 · set 78
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Change into indirect speech.

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

Commands, requests and exclamations

Class 8–10 · Worksheet 3 · set 78
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Change into indirect speech.

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

Indirect to direct

Class 8–10 · Worksheet 4 · set 78
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Change into direct speech.

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

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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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