Direct And Indirect Speech Worksheet For Class 10
Sentences are given in direct speech. Change them into indirect speech.
1. Mother said to me, ‘I have never seen such a lazy boy as you are.’
2. The girl told the boy, ‘I don’t like your arrogance.’
3. ‘I am going to school,’ she told me.
4. John said, ‘If my parents give me permission, I will go abroad for higher studies.’
5. ‘If you want to buy a car, I can lend you some money,’ my father said to me.
6. ‘I will show you how it works,’ father said to his son.
7. ‘I want to borrow a book,’ the girl told the librarian.
8. ‘I will take you to the mall,’ my uncle told me.
9. ‘I have found a good job,’ he told me.
10. ‘I want to see it before I buy it,’ he will tell us.
11. ‘You must change your wet clothes,’ mother told me.
12. ‘We needn’t ask her,’ he said.
Answers
1. Mother told me that she had never seen such a lazy boy as I was.
2. The girl told the boy that she didn’t like his arrogance.
3. She told me that she was going to school.
4. John said that if his parents gave him permission, he would go abroad for higher studies.
5. My father told me that if I wanted to buy a car, he could lend me some money.
6. Father told his son that he would show him how it worked.
7. The girl told the librarian that she wanted to borrow a book.
8. My uncle told me that he would take me to the mall.
9. He told me that he had found a good job.
10. He will tell us that he wants to see it before he buys it.
11. Mother told me that I had to change my wet clothes.
12. He said that they didn’t need to ask her.
