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Reported speech MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers
Solve 4 Reported speech questions for RAS/RPSC preparation.
Practice questions
Q1For the sentence given below, choose the most appropriate answer in reported speech from the options below: Ravi said, "My mother is going to her home town."
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.
Q2Choose the most appropriate reported form of the sentence given: He said to us, "Don’t walk on ice; it isn’t safe."
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.
Q3Choose the most appropriate reported form of the given sentence: He said to him, "Is your name not Robin?"
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.
Q4Complete the given sentence by choosing the most appropriate word from the options below: She remarked that she _________ annoyed with him for his lack of sympathy for the victim.
The reporting verb "remarked" is in the past tense, so the clause that follows normally takes a past-tense form when it reports the speaker's feeling. "Felt" completes the sentence grammatically: "She remarked that she felt annoyed with him." "Will feel" is future tense and does not match the reported-speech structure here. "Feeling" lacks the required finite verb after "she". "Feel" is present tense and also fails to agree with the past reporting verb in this sentence.
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