Reported speech MCQ — 3 Practice Questions with Answers

Explanation

The reporting verb is in the past tense, so the present continuous form "is going" normally changes to the past continuous form "was going" in reported speech. The pronoun also changes from "my mother" to "his mother", because Ravi is the speaker being reported. "Will go" wrongly changes the tense and meaning to future simple. "Has gone" and "had gone" both suggest that the journey has already been completed, while the original sentence says the mother was in the process of going.

Explanation

The direct sentence is a yes-no interrogative addressed by one person to another: "Is your name not Robin?" In reported speech, "said to" changes to "inquired" or "asked", the question form becomes statement order, and "your" changes according to the person addressed, so "his name" fits. The negative sense is also retained through "was not". "He asked if the name was Robin" drops the possessive reference and the negative. "He said that wasn't his name Robin" is ungrammatical. "My name" wrongly shifts the reference to the reporter.

Explanation

In reported speech, a direct warning with “Don’t” is best changed to “warned us not to” followed by the base verb. The present form “isn’t” normally backshifts to “wasn’t” after the past reporting verb “said”. “He said not to” is incomplete and also has the error “its” for “it’s”. “He ordered us not to walked” is grammatically wrong because “to” must take the base verb. “He told us to avoid” conveys a similar meaning but does not preserve the warning as accurately and keeps “isn’t” unshifted.