Direct and Indirect Speech Online Test

His father ordered him to go to his room and study.
His father said, “go to your room and study.”

“It is a pleasure to do business with you.”
He said that it was a pleasure to do business with me.
Use simple past tense, and change ‘you’ into ‘me’.

He said to his father, “Please increase my pocket money.”
He requested his father to increase his pocket money.

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.

My husband said to me, “Wait for me outside.”
My husband told me to wait for him outside.

The Colonel said to the soldier, “next month, you will be promoted.”
The Colonel told the soldier he would be promoted the following month.
Change ‘said to’ into ‘told, you into ‘he’, ‘next month’ into ‘the following month’.

The employer said to him, “I shall pay your wages tomorrow.”
The employer told him that he would pay his wages the next, day.

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 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.

Gita said, “This is my book”.
Gita said that this was her book.