Test!: DIRECT-INDIRECT SPEECH

DIRECT-INDIRECT SPEECH

1. Direct : ‘Is this man your servant?’ added the policeman

Indirect : the policeman added wether that man is my servant?

Jules Verne.Around the World in 80 Days.118

2. Direct : ‘I appeal to your friends, ‘he said

Indirect : he said that he was appeal to my friends

Bram Stoker.Dracula.439

3. Direct : ‘I do not fear to die,’ she said

Indirect : she said that she wasn’t fear to die

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Frankenstein.120

4. Direct : “I didn’t have pictures of you” she shrugged

Indirect : she shrugged that she had not have pictures of me

Lora Leigh.Yesterday.18

5. Direct : ‘‘What do you claim that it was?’ he asked.

Indirect : he asked if I claim that it was

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.the lost world.135

6. Direct : ‘I’m hanged if it isn’t a quarter to one,’ said the Journalist.

Indirect : The journalist said that he had hanged if it isn’t a quarter to one

H. G. Wells. The Time Machine,141

7. Direct : Have they run?’ asked Mr. Smollett.

Indirect : Mr. Smollett asked wether they run?

Robert Louis Ttevenson.Treasure Island.199

8. Direct : ‘I would sacrifice anything for you even my feelings.’ Said nicholas

Indirect : Nicholas said that he would sacrifice anything for me even my feelings

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace.1024

9. Direct : Mary told her friends “I have been to Bali twice”.

Indirect : Mary told her friends that she had been to Bali twice

10. Direct : He told me, “we have bought a car”

Indirect : They told me that they had bought a car

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