Reported Speech

Reported Speech is used to tell what a person said to him/her, to the third person.

Say I told you that, “You are my friend." Now someone asks you what I told you. Then you have 2 options; either quote the same sentence or tell keeping yourself as the first person, i.e, He (I) told me that I (you) was his friend.

There are some simple rules regarding tenses to learn and rest you are going to study in higher classes.

Rule 1: Present Tenses change into corresponding Past tense. Consider the table below

Present	Past
Indefinite	Indefinite
Perfect Continuous	Perfect Continuous
Continuous	Continuous
Perfect	Perfect

Rule 2:Past tense is changed as follows…

Past	Past
Indefinite	Perfect
Continuous	Perfect Continuous

Let's Practice

Change from direct to indirect speech

She said, “You are my daughter."
Ram said, “Ravan must be punished."
He asked, “ What do you want?"

Answers

She told me that I was her daughter.

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Ram told that Ravan must be killed.

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He asked me that if I wanted something.

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Recap

Reported Speech is used to tell what someone said keeping yourself in the first person.

Present:-
Indefinite is changed to Past Indefinite
Continuous is changed to Past continuous
Perfect is changed to Past perfect
Perfect Continuous is changed to Past perfect Continuous.

Past:-
Indefinite is changed to Past perfect.
Continuous is changed to Past perfect Continuous.

Quiz for Reported Speech

Q.1	Complete the given sentences using the words/phrases given below only. a. Could b. Going c. Had flown d. hadn't seen e. If i was f. Liked g. Not sitting h. Not to stay i. To take j. Took k. Was l. Was wearing m. What happened n. Would be This man flew this very flight before. " I could tell that man _______ that very flight before.
a)	e
b)	c
c)	g
d)	h

Q.2	Complete the given sentences using the words/phrases given below only. a. Could b. Going c. Had flown d. hadn't seen e. If i was f. Liked g. Not sitting h. Not to stay i. To take j. Took k. Was l. Was wearing m. What happened n. Would be "Take the dog out to stretch his legs. " He told the pilot _____ the dog out to stretch his legs.
a)	c
b)	n
c)	m
d)	i

Q.3	Complete the given sentences using the words/phrases given below only. a. Could b. Going c. Had flown d. hadn't seen e. If i was f. Liked g. Not sitting h. Not to stay i. To take j. Took k. Was l. Was wearing m. What happened n. Would be "I haven't seen blind people with guide dogs on planes yet. " Peter replied that he _____ blind people with guide dogs on planes yet.
a)	b
b)	d
c)	k
d)	l

Q.4	Complete the given sentences using the words/phrases given below only. a. Could b. Going c. Had flown d. hadn't seen e. If i was f. Liked g. Not sitting h. Not to stay i. To take j. Took k. Was l. Was wearing m. What happened n. Would be "You can get off the plane. " The pilot told us we ____ get off the plane.
a)	e
b)	l
c)	j
d)	a

Q.5	Complete the given sentences using the words/phrases given below only. a. Could b. Going c. Had flown d. hadn't seen e. If i was f. Liked g. Not sitting h. Not to stay i. To take j. Took k. Was l. Was wearing m. What happened n. Would be "How long does the flight take?" Mary wanted to know how long the flight ______ .
a)	g
b)	c
c)	n
d)	m

Q.6	Complete the given sentences using the words/phrases given below only. a. Could b. Going c. Had flown d. hadn't seen e. If i was f. Liked g. Not sitting h. Not to stay i. To take j. Took k. Was l. Was wearing m. What happened n. Would be "Are you nervous?" The stewardess asked me ____ nervous.
a)	e
b)	h
c)	j
d)	d

Q.7	Complete the given sentences using the words/phrases given below only. a. Could b. Going c. Had flown d. hadn't seen e. If i was f. Liked g. Not sitting h. Not to stay i. To take j. Took k. Was l. Was wearing m. What happened n. Would be "What happened?" They asked me ______.
a)	l
b)	i
c)	b
d)	m

Q.8	Complete the given sentences using the words/phrases given below only. a. Could b. Going c. Had flown d. hadn't seen e. If i was f. Liked g. Not sitting h. Not to stay i. To take j. Took k. Was l. Was wearing m. What happened n. Would be "Don't stay for too long. " They told us _____ for too long.
a)	k
b)	h
c)	b
d)	f

Q.9	Complete the given sentences using the words/phrases given below only. a. Could b. Going c. Had flown d. hadn't seen e. If i was f. Liked g. Not sitting h. Not to stay i. To take j. Took k. Was l. Was wearing m. What happened n. Would be "Let's go out. " Tom suggested ____ out.
a)	c
b)	a
c)	b
d)	k

Q.10	Complete the given sentences using the words/phrases given below only. a. Could b. Going c. Had flown d. hadn't seen e. If I was f. Liked g. Not to sit h. Not to stay i. To take j. Took k. Was l. Was wearing m. What happened n. Would be "Let's not sit all the time." I suggested ______ all the time.
a)	g
b)	a
c)	b
d)	i