Reported Speech Quiz
Test your understanding of Reported Speech in English with this Reported Speech Quiz. Reported Speech, also known as indirect speech, is used to convey what someone else said without quoting their exact words. It often involves changes in tense, pronouns, and time expressions to suit the reporting context. For example, direct speech: “ I am learning English, ” becomes in reported speech: “ She said she was learning English. ” This quiz has 15 questions and each question will ask you to change the direct speech into reported speech. Take The Quiz Below!
Direct: "I am watching a movie." Reported: She said that she __________ a movie.
Direct: "I will go to the store." Reported: He said that he __________ to the store.
Direct: "We have finished our homework." Reported: They said that they __________ their homework.
Direct: "I can play the piano." Reported: She said that she __________ the piano.
Direct: "I am going to watch a movie tonight." Reported: He said that he __________ a movie that night.
Direct: "We are meeting our friends tomorrow." Reported: They said that they __________ their friends the next day.
Direct: "I have been reading a book." Reported: She said that she __________ a book.
Direct: "I ate pizza last night." Reported: He said that he __________ pizza the night before.
Direct: "We will finish the project by tomorrow." Reported: They said that they __________ the project by the next day.
Direct: "I saw him yesterday." Reported: She said that she __________ him the day before.
Direct: "I must leave now." Reported: He said that he __________ right away.
Direct: "We can't come to the party." Reported: They said that they __________ to the party.
Direct: "I did not see him at the event." Reported: She said that she __________ him at the event.
Direct: "I have been feeling unwell." Reported: He said that he __________ unwell.
Direct: "We were planning to visit you." Reported: They said that they __________ to visit you.
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Reported Speech Quiz
You can do this grammar quiz online or print it on paper. It tests what you learned on the Reported Speech pages.
1. Which is a reporting verb?
2. He said that it was cold outside. Which word is optional?
3. "I bought a car last week." Last week he said he had bought a car
4. "Where is it?" said Mary. She
5. Which of these is usually required with reported YES/NO questions?
6. Ram asked me where I worked. His original words were
7. "Don't yell!" is a
8. "Please wipe your feet." I asked them to wipe
9. She always asks me not to burn the cookies. She always says
10. Which structure is not used for reported orders?
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Reported speech exercises
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- Present tenses
- Past tenses
- Future tenses
- Present perfect
- Past perfect
- Future perfect
- Irregular verbs
- Modal verbs
- If-conditional
- Passive voice
- Reported speech
- Time clauses
- Relative clauses
- Indirect questions
- Question tags
- Imperative sentence
- Gerund and infinitive
- Direct | indirect object
Rewrite the sentences in the reported speech
Change the tenses, pronouns, expressions of time and place to rewrite the sentences from the direct to reported speech.
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Direct and indirect speech Exercises with answers and grammar rules.
Reported speech worksheets PDF exercises with answers.
Reported questions, commands and requests Exercises and grammar rules.
Reported speech - brief summary
In the reported speech we usually change tenses (one tense back), pronouns, time and place.
"I admire you," said Sarah. Sarah said she admired me.
"We came back yesterday," they told me. They told me they had come the day before.
"Peter has put it here," he thought. He thought that Peter had put it there.
"I'm afraid that your parents won't like me," said George. George said he was afraid that my parents wouldn't like him.
How to avoid the shift of tenses:
It is simple to avoid shift of tenses in the reported speech if you use the reporting verb in the present simple tense instead of the past simple tense.
"I admire you," said Sarah. Sarah says she admires me.
"I'm afraid that your parents won't like me," said George. George says that he is afraid that my parents won't like him.
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