Direct and Indirect Speech Online Test

She said that her brother was getting married.
She said, “my brother is getting married.”

He said to his friends, “let us go out.”
He proposed to his friends that they should go out.
Change ‘said to’ into ‘proposed to’, ‘us’ into ‘they’.

He said to me, “where are you going?”
He asked me where I was going.
Change ‘said to’ into ‘asked’, you into ‘I’, and write a sentence in statement form.

Socrates said, “Virtue is its own reward.” (universal truth statements)
Socrates said that virtue is its own reward.
Use conjunction ‘that’. We don’t change the tense of the universal truth statements.

She said to him, “Why don’t you go today?”
She asked him why he did not go that day.

“If you don’t keep quiet I shall shoot you”, he said to her in a calm voice.
He warned her calmly that he would shoot her if she didn’t keep quiet.

The boys are sure to say, “We are going by ourselves.”
The boys will say that they were going by themselves.
Use conjunction ‘that’. Change ‘we’ into ‘they’.

My friend said to me, “Beware of cheats.”
My friend told me to beware of cheats.
Change ‘said to’ into ‘told, use infinitive ‘to’.

The teacher said, “the earth revolves around the sun.” (universal truth statements)
The teacher said that the earth revolves around the sun.
We don’t change the tense of the universal truth statements.

He replied, “I have promised to reward my servants.”
He replied that he had promised to reward his servants.
Use past perfect tense, change ‘my’ into ‘his’.