Your class 10 English question paper will have several questions that test your ability to use direct and indirect speech. This worksheet for class 10 covers all kinds of questions that could be asked on your exam.

Worksheet 1

Select the correct option to complete the narration of the dialogue between Rahul and Maya.

1. Rahul: Do you know how to operate a fax machine? Maya: Yes, I do.

Rahul asked Maya …………………………………..

a) if she knew how to operate a fax machine.

b) that she knew how to operate a fax machine.

c) if she know how to operate a fax machine.

d) if that she knew how to operate a fax machine.

Answer: Rahul asked Maya if she knew how to operate a fax machine.

2. Mother: When will you be coming back home?

Daughter: I will be back home by evening.

Mother asked her daughter when she would be coming back home. She replied …………………………………..

a) that she will be back home by evening

b) that she would be back home by evening

c) that she is back home by evening

d) that she was back home by evening

Answer: that she would be back home by evening

3. Vishal to Ravi: Did you watch the tennis match on TV last night?

Vishal asked Ravi ………………………………………….

a) that he watched the tennis match on TV last night

b) that if he had watched the tennis match on TV last night

c) whether he had watched the tennis match on TV the previous night

d) that if he had watched the tennis match on TV the previous night

Answer: whether he had watched the tennis match on TV the previous night

4. Mother: Have you done your homework? Son: Yes

Mother asked her son ………………………………………..

a) if he did his homework

b) if he had done his homework

c) that he had done his homework

d) whether he did his homework

Answer: if he had done his homework

5. Rahul: I don’t understand what you want.

Rahul said ……………………………………….

a) that he doesn’t understand what I want

b) that he didn’t understand what I wanted

c) that he doesn’t understand what you want

d) that he wouldn’t understand what I wanted

Answer: that he didn’t understand what I wanted

6. Teacher: What are you looking for?

The boy: I can’t find my calculator.

The teacher asked the boy ………………………………… He said that he couldn’t find his calculator.

a) what you are looking for

b) what was he looking for

c) what he was looking for

d) what he is looking for

Answer: what he was looking for

7. ‘Do you know who I am?’ he asked.

He asked ……………………………………..

a) if I knew who he was

b) if I know what is he

c) if I knew who was he

d) whether I knew who was he

Answer: if I knew who he was

8. Priya: Are you coming with me?

Maya: No. I have to work on my project.

Priya asked Maya ………………………………….

a) whether she is coming with her

b) whether was she coming with her

c) whether she was coming with her

d) whether is she coming with her

Answer: whether she was coming with her

Maya replied in the negative and added ……………………………………….

a) that she had to work on her project

b) that she has to work on her project

c) that she was working on her project

d) that she is working on her project

Answer: that she had to work on her project

9. Priya: I don’t know what I am supposed to do.

Priya said ………………………………………….

a) that she doesn’t know what she is supposed to do

b) that she didn’t know what she was supposed to do

c) that she didn’t know what was she supposed to do

d) that she didn’t knew what she was supposed to do

Answer: that she didn’t know what she was supposed to do

10. The man: Where can I buy used laptops?

The passerby: There is a store at the end of this street.

a) The man ……………………………………

a) said where he can buy used laptops

b) asked where can he buy used laptops

c) asked where he could buy used laptops

d) asked that where he could buy used laptops

Answer: asked where he could buy used laptops

The passerby …………………………………………..

a) said that there is a store at the end of this street

b) replied that there was a store at the end of the street

c) replied that there was a store at the end of that street

d) replies that there was a store at the end of this street

Answer: replied that there was a store at the end of that street

11. The girl: Do you have a copy of The Old Man and the Sea?

The storekeeper: No, it is out of stock.

The girl asked the storekeeper ………………………………………….

a) whether he has a copy of The Old Man and the Sea

b) if he had a copy of The Old Man and the Sea

c) if he does have a copy of The Old Man and the Sea

d) does he have a copy of The Old Man and the Sea

Answer: if he had a copy of The Old Man and the Sea

12. Priya: I am starving. I haven’t eaten anything since morning.

Priya said that …………………………….……………………………………………….

a) she was starving and added that she hadn’t eaten anything since morning

b) she is starving and added that she hasn’t eaten anything since morning

c) she was starving and said that she hadn’t eaten anything since morning

d) she was starving as she hasn’t eaten anything since morning

Answer: she was starving and added that she hadn’t eaten anything since morning