Indirect Speech | MCQs

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The correct answer is: The doctor says that it is better I undergo a surgery the following week.

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• The correct answer is: I told her that I would have written letters.
• The original sentence is in the Future Perfect tense, and when converted to indirect speech, it becomes the Future Perfect tense in the subordinate clause, with the verb "would have" indicating the hypothetical or uncertain nature of the action.

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The correct indirect speech for "The Hyder said, 'It gives me great pleasure to be here this morning'" is: The Hyder exclaimed with joy that it gave him great pleasure to be there that morning.

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The correct indirect speech is: Ahmad asked the magician what he had done to deserve so severe a blow.

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In indirect speech, the pronoun "I" becomes "he" (or "she" or "they" depending on the subject), and the verb tense changes to the past perfect (had done) to indicate that the action happened before the time of speaking.

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• The correct answer is: The policeman ordered the violent crowd to stop all that or they would be arrested.
• This is the correct indirect speech equivalent of the original direct speech sentence. The verb "ordered" is used to report the command, and the wording "stop all that" and "they would be arrested" accurately convey the meaning of the original sentence.

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• The indirect form of speech for the given sentence "He says, 'I will sit in the garden'" would be: He said that he would sit in the garden.
• In indirect speech, the tense of the reporting verb ("says") is shifted according to the context, and the tense of the reported speech ("I will sit") is usually shifted back one tense from present to past ("I would sit").

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 I said to you, “He should not be trusted.”

میں نے آپ سے کہا، ’’اس پر بھروسہ نہیں کرنا چاہیے۔‘‘

 I told you that he should not be trusted.

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If the reporting verb is in the past tense, then the modals like will/shall change to would.

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 he said" Ahmed wrote a novel" 

change into the narration:  he said that Ahmed had written a novel"

In the first speech, there is a quotation – "  he said" Ahmed wrote a novel" ”

As it is quoted directly from someone’s speech "he said that Ahmed had written a novel"

In both ways, I am giving descriptions of a person, i.e. I am narrating something about a person.

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