Q. In the following sentence, replace the verb by a noun :

He fought bravely.

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Q. In the following sentence, replace the adverb with a noun:

He watched the girl carefully.

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Q. Indirect speech is when one quotes the exact words spoken by a speaker.

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Q. Indirect speech is also called as :

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Q. While converting direct speech to indirect, simple present becomes a simple past.

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Q. Convert the following direct speech to indirect :

She said, “My mother is cooking food.”

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Q. Change the speech for the following statement :

She said, “The man died in the afternoon.”

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Q. Convert the following statement in direct speech to indirect :

He said to me, “I don’t believe you.”

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Q. Change the speech in the following sentence :

She says, “I am happy to be here this evening.”

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Q. Change the direct speech to indirect :

He said to me, “Where is Neha?”

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Q. Convert the following direct speech to indirect :

Vineet said to Nitin, “ Go away.”

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Q. Convert the following direct speech to indirect:

She said, “Alas ! I have failed.”

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Q. If the reported speech expresses some universal truth, habit, historical incident or permanent fact, its tense does not change even when the reporting verb is in the past tense.

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Q. Convert the following sentence in indirect speech to direct speech :

He exclaimed sadly that he was undone.

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Q. While changing a question into indirect speech, the reporting verb must be changed into 'ask', 'inquire' or 'demand'.

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Q. Which of these prepositions is used with 'inquire' or 'demand'?

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Q. Convert the following direct speech to indirect :

My mother said to me, “Are you going to school today?”

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Q. Which of these forms are used to report negative commands?

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Q. Which of these verbs don’t follow the object + infinitive form?

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Q. Convert the following direct speech to indirect speech :

She said, “We will analyse this tomorrow.”

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