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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 96
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Change into indirect speech.

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

Questions

Class 7–9 · Worksheet 2 · set 96
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Change into indirect speech.

  1. The man said to the boy, “Do you know the way?”
  2. He said to me, “What is your name?”
  3. She said to him, “Are you hungry?”
  4. I said to her, “Why are you crying?”
  5. Mother said to me, “Have you done your homework?”
  6. He said to them, “Did you see the match?”
  7. She said, “When will the train arrive?”
  8. The doctor said to the patient, “How do you feel now?”
  9. The teacher said, “Who broke the window?”
  10. He said to me, “Where do you live?”

Commands, requests and exclamations

Class 8–10 · Worksheet 3 · set 96
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Change into indirect speech.

  1. He said to her, “Please help me.”
  2. Father said to us, “Don’t waste water.”
  3. He said, “What a beautiful flower!”
  4. She said to him, “Don’t make a noise.”
  5. The officer said to the soldiers, “March forward.”
  6. She said, “Alas! I have lost my purse.”
  7. The doctor said to me, “Take rest.”
  8. She said to the waiter, “Please bring me a glass of water.”
  9. Mother said to me, “Close the door.”
  10. I said to my friend, “Let us go for a walk.”

Indirect to direct

Class 8–10 · Worksheet 4 · set 96
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Change into direct speech.

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

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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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