Class 11 English │ Unit 18 │ Grammar Exercises

 


Grammar


Change the following into indirect speech.


a. She said, "While I was having dinner, the phone rang."

She said that while she was having dinner, the phone rang.
(In case of time-clause, we don't change tense)

b. My friend said, "Where are they staying?"

My friend asked where they were staying.

c. Jamila said, "I travel a lot in my job."

Jamila said that she travelled a lot in her job.

d. She said to me, "We lived in China for five years."

She told me that they had lived in China for five years.

e. He said to me, "Do you like ice-cream?"

He told me if I had liked ice-cream.

f. They said, "Hurray! We’ve won the match."

They exclaimed with delight that they had won the match.

g. He said, "I’d tried everything without success, but this new medicine is great."

He said that he’d tried everything without success, but this new medicine was great.

h. Sony said, "I go to the gym next to your house."

Sony said that she went to the gym next to my house.

i. He said, "Be quiet after 10 o’clock."

He told me to be quiet after 10 o’clock.

j. He said, "I don’t want to go to the party unless he invites me."

He said that he didn’t want to go to the party unless he invited him.

k. He said to me, "I will see you tomorrow if you meet me."

He told me that he would see me the following day if I met him.

l. She said, "If I were you, I would give up the work."

She said that if she were me, she would give up the work.
(For imaginary conditions we don't change the tense)

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