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This document contains examples of direct and indirect speech. There are 6 exercises with statements provided directly and their indirect speech equivalents. The exercises demonstrate how to rewrite direct statements as indirect statements by changing pronouns, adverbs of time, and sometimes the entire sentence structure depending on who is speaking to whom.

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Direct

This document contains examples of direct and indirect speech. There are 6 exercises with statements provided directly and their indirect speech equivalents. The exercises demonstrate how to rewrite direct statements as indirect statements by changing pronouns, adverbs of time, and sometimes the entire sentence structure depending on who is speaking to whom.

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DIRECT & INDIRECT

EXERCISE # 1

She says, I read the Holy Quran.


They say, We love Pakistan.
He will say, I do not mix with bad boys.
You say, I respect my teacher.
Faisal says, I shall go to Karachi by the Khyber Mail.

SOLUTION

She says that she reads the Holy Quran.


They say that they love Pakistan.
He will say that he does not mix with bad boys.
You say that you respect your teacher.
Faisal says that he will go to Karachi by the Khyber Mail.

EXERCISE # 2

He said, I eat apples.


He said, I am eating apples.
He said, I have eaten apples.
He said, I have already been eating apples.
She said, I ate apples.

SOLUTION

He said that he ate apples.


He said that he was eating apples.
He said that he had eaten apples.
He said that he had already been eating apples.
She said that she had been eaten apples.

EXERCIES # 3

They said, We live in this house.


She said to him, These books are very interesting.
He said to me, I shall buy that pen.
The boy said to us, Father bought these toys for me.
He said to them, I have bought these apples just now.

SOLUTION
1

They said that they lived in that house.


She told him to those books were very interesting.
He said me to he should buy that pen.
The boy said to us that Father had bought those toys for him.
He said to them that he had been buying those apples just then.

Exercise # 4

He said, I am going to the post office.


She said, I love my country very dearly.
You said, My brother has given me this pen.
They said, We do not say anything against our friends.
We said to him, You have not told us the truth in this case.

SOLUTION

He said that he was going to the post office.


She said that she loved her country very dearly.
You said that your brother had given you that pen.
They said that they did not say anything against their friends.
We advise him to he had not told us the truth in that case.

EXERCISE # 5

She said that she loves Pakistan.


He said that he was a native of Iran.
He said to me that they were cheating him.
You said to me that I had been very kind to him.
She said to us that she had been teaching my sister since the
previous day.

SOLUTION

She said, I love Pakistan.


He said, I am a native of Iran.
He said to me, We are cheating him.
You said to me, You have been very kind to him.
She said to us, I have been teaching my sister since the
yesterday.

EXERCISE # 6

She said to me, Every cock fight best on its own dung-hill.
She said to the doctor that she would be going to Murree the
next day.
2

He said to me that he had not been received my telegram the


previous day.
We said to him respectfully that we were sorry for what we had
done.
She said, I have spoken the truth to you now.

SOLUTION

She said me to every cock fight best on her own dung-hill.


She said to the doctor, I will be going to Murree the tomorrow.
He said to me, I have not been received your telegram the
yesterday.
We said to him, Sir, they are sorry for what they have done.
She said that she had spoken the truth to you then.

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