Direct Indirect Exercise

Some useful example

Direct: He asked, ?Do you want to come with me??
Indirect: He asked if I wanted to come with him.


Direct: Ram asked, ?Where I had gone the previous weekend??
Indirect: Ram asked me where I had gone the previous weekend.


Direct: She asked,? Why are you studying Science??
Indirect: he asked me why I am studying Science.

Direct: But the sea god cried, ?Do not be afraid noble prince; I have taken pity on you and will help you.?
Indirect: But the sea god told the noble prince not to be afraid and assured him that he had taken a pity on him and would help him.


Direct: my friend said to me,? could you help me??
Indirect: my friend asked me if I could help him.


Direct: The teacher said to principal ?can I go??Indirect: the teacher asked the principal if he could go .


Direct: Mother said to the boy, ?Do it immediately.?
Indirect: Mother ordered the boy to do it immediately.


Direct: ?curse it?!  Exclaimed the driver ?who could have foreseen such ill ? luck?? but for the accident we should have caught the train easily.
Indirect : the driver exclaimed with a cruse that nobody could foreseen such ill luck, and said that but that accident they would have caught the train easily.


Direct: The master said to the girls, ?work hard if you want to pass the exams.?
Indirect: The teacher advised the student work hard if they wanted to pass the exam.


Direct: once a rich man said to his poor brother, ?why you do not enter the service of the king, so that you might relieve yourself from the baseness of labour??
Indirect: once a rich man asked his poor brother why you did not enter the service of the king, so that he might relieve himself from the baseness of labor.


Direct: She said to the children, ?do not look down in to the well.?
Indirect: She warned the children not to look down in to the well.


Direct: finding no remedy she said to herself, ?it is better to die than to live in such misery as I am compelled to suffer from a husband who treats me and has always treated me so unkindly.?
Indirect: finding no remedy she said to herself that it was better to die than to live such misery as she was compelled to suffer from a husband who treated her and always treated her so unkindly


Direct: He said. ?Please dad let me attend the marriage party of my friend.?
Indirect: he requested daddy to permit him to attend the marriage party of his friend.


Direct: he said me, ?Are you not going to school today?? I said ?No?
indirect: he asked me whether I was not going to school that day. I answer that I was not.


Direct: He said, ?I am not going to help you, you fool.?
Indirect: calling him a fool he said that he was not going to help him.


Direct: She said,? I want to bring my children tomorrow.?
Indirect: She said she wanted to bring her children next day.


Direct: The Owner said to employee, Post this letter at once.?
Indirect: The owner ordered the employee to post that letter at once.


Direct: John said, ?My wife went with me to the movie yesterday.?
Indirect: John said his wife had gone with him to the show day before


Direct: ?Let us see him today?, said Diya .
Indirect: Diya suggested that they should see him that day.

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