CBSE Questions for Class 8 English Transformation Of Sentences Quiz 5 - MCQExams.com

Choose the correct option to complete the sentence in indirect speech:
The guide said to the tourist, "The Taj looks awesome in moonlight."
The guide told the tourist that the Taj ___ awesome in moon light.
  • Looks
  • Looked
  • Is looking
  • Was looking
Choose the correct indirect speech form of the given statement.
Sheenu said to Tina, "I bought this book for you a day before yesterday."
  • Sheenu told Tina that she bought that book for you a day before the previous day
  • Sheenu told Tina that she had bought that book for her a day before yesterday
  • Sheenu told Tina that she had bought that book for her a day before the previous day
  • Sheenu said Tina about the purchase of the book a day before yesterday
Choose the most suitable passive voice conversion of the given sentence:
You should not eat the uncovered food items.
  • Food items being uncovered should not be eaten by you.
  • The uncovered food items not be eaten.
  • The uncovered food items should not be eaten.
  • None of these
Choose the most suitable passive voice conversions of the given sentences :
We saw you and him.
  • You and him was seen by us.
  • You and he were seen by us.
  • You and him were seen by us.
  • You and he seen by us.
Choose the correct indirect speech form of the given statement.
My mother said to me, "Bring some cherries from the market."
  • My mother asked me that bring some cherries from the market.
  • My mother asked me to bring some cherries from the market.
  • My mother ordered me for some cherries.
  • My mother urged me bringing cherries.
Choose the correct indirect speech form of the given statement.
Jack said, "Can I go and dance, father?"
  • Jack asked his father if he can go and dance
  • Jack asked father whether he went and danced
  • Jack sought permission for dance
  • Jack asked his father if he could go and dance
Choose the correct indirect speech form of the given statement.
Saif said to me, "Who can decode such a difficult message?"
  • Saif asked me by whom can such a difficult message be decoded
  • Saif asked me who could decode such a difficult message
  • Saif asked who could decode that difficult message
  • None of these
Choose the correct indirect speech form of the given statement.
Pihu said to Anu, "Please, come here to support me."
  • Pihu asked Anu to came here to support her
  • Pihu requested Anu to come here to support her
  • Pihu requested Anu to come there to support her
  • Pihu requested Anu to go there to support her
Choose the correct indirect speech form of the given statement.
The stranger said to Alice, "Where do you live?"
  • The stranger asked Alice where did she live
  • The stranger asked Alice where you lived
  • The stranger asked Alice where she had lived
  • The stranger asked Alice where she lived
Choose the correct indirect speech form of the given statement:
The priest said to me, "May God shower His blessings on you!"
  • The priest prayed that God might shower His blessings on me.
  • The priest wished that God may shower His blessings on me.
  • The priest requested that God might shower His blessings on me.
  • All of these
Choose the most appropriate indirect narrations of the given sentences : 
Hamid said, "What a fascinating flower it is!"  [Intermediate]
  • Hamid said what a fascinating flower it was.
  • Hamid said that it was a fascinating flower.
  • Hamid exclaimed that it was a very fascinating flower.
  • None of the above.
Choose the correct indirect speech form of the given statement.
A clever mouse said to all, "Let's bell the cat."
  • A clever mouse proposal all that they should bell the cat
  • A clever mouse proposed to all that they should bell the cat
  • A clever mouse suggested that they must bell the cat
  • A clever mouse suggested all that they would bell the cat
Fill in the blank with a suitable option:
"I'll hit you!"
____________ to hit me.
  • He suggested
  • He threatened
  • He promised
  • He offered
Fill in the blank with a suitable option:
"Did she agree with me?"
He wondered if ________________.
  • She had agreed with he
  • She agreed with him
  • She had agreed with him
  • She had agree with him
Fill in the blank with a suitable option:
Everybody said, "We're glad the danger is over."
Everybody said that ______________________.
  • He was glad the danger was over
  • They are glad the danger is over
  • They were glad the danger was over
  • He is glad the danger is over
Fill in the blank with a suitable option:
"Fantastic! I've actually passed my exam!" exclaimed Janet.
Janet was delighted to find that ___________. [Intermediate]
  • I'd passed my exam
  • I've passed my exam
  • She's passed her exam
  • She'd passed her exam
Fill in the blank with a suitable option:
He asked "Have you read The old Man and the Sea, Ted?"
He wanted to know if ___________ The old Man and the Sea.
  • I'd read
  • Ted had read
  • I have read
  • Ted has read
Fill in the blank with a suitable option:
"Oh dear! It looks as if it is going to rain again."
Mother was afraid that _______________. [Intermediate]
  • It was raining again
  • It was going to rain again
  • It is going to rain again
  • It looked like rain again
Fill in the blank with a suitable option:
She said, "I'd love to come".
She said ____________ to come.
  • that she'd loved
  • that I'd love
  • that she'd love
  • that I'd loved
Fill in the blank with a suitable option:
"Whom did you see at the concert last night?"
She asked us whom ___________ at the concert the night before.
  • I'd seen
  • We'd seen
  • We saw
  • I saw
Fill in the blank with a suitable option:
"Which of these films have you seen?"
My friend asked me which of those films _____________.
  • Have I seen
  • I had seen
  • You had seen
  • Have your seen
Fill in the blank with a suitable option:
"Don't eat those cherries, they are poisonous," said David.
David _______________ not to eat those cherries because they were poisonous.
  • Didn't want me
  • Said to me that
  • Warned me
  • Suggested that
Fill in the blank with a suitable option:
"Would you like to come to my party?"
He invited her _____________________.
  • She'd like to come to his party
  • She'd like to come to my party
  • If she'd come to his party
  • To come to his party
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.
Dick to Lucy : Have you received my telegram?
Dick asked if ________________________.
  • Lucy had received his telegram
  • Lucy has received his telegram
  • Lucy would receive his telegram
  • Lucy will receive his telegram
  • Lucy received his telegram
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.
Ann : Write down my address.
Ann asked me _____
  • he wrote down my address
  • to write down her address
  • he had written her address
  • she writes down her address
  • she wrote down his address
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.
Lena said, "Where have you been yesterday?"
Lena asked _________________________
  • where she had been the day before.
  • where she had been yesterday.
  • where she was the day before.
  • where she could be the day before.
  • where she hasn't been before.
Fill in the blank using the direct speech:
He asked us whom we would visit.
He asked us, "Whom _________?"
  • Will you visit
  • Would you visit
  • You will visit
  • We would visit
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.
Someone wrote this report last week.
This report _____ by someone last week.
  • is written
  • was written
  • has been written
  • had been written
  • would be written
Fill in the blank with a suitable option:
He asked me if I had ever played the piano.
He asked me, "____________________?" [Intermediate]
  • Do you ever play the piano
  • Did you ever play the piano
  • Have I ever played the piano
  • Have you ever played the piano
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.
Nick : "Did you see a bird in the tree?"
Nick wonders _____ in the tree.
  • If I saw a bird
  • that I saw a bird
  • If I had seen a bird
  • Whether I see a bird
  • If I have seen a bird
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.
Peter wanted _____ a policeman.
  • that Mary would ask
  • Mary asking
  • Mary should ask
  • Mary to ask
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.
Bill : "Have you seen any interesting comedy lately. Nancy?"
Bill asked Nancy ________. [Intermediate]
  • if he will see an interesting film
  • if he saw an interesting comedy lately
  • what comedy Nancy saw lately
  • if she had seen any interesting comedy lately
  • if she would see an interesting comedy
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.
Mother : "We are going to have supper".
Mother says _____________________.
  • they are going to have supper
  • they were going to have supper
  • that they would have supper
  • they won't have supper
  • they haven't had supper yet
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.
"Will Tom help me?" she said.
She asked ______.
  • will Tom help her
  • if Tom would help her
  • whether he will help her
  • whether would he help her
  • that Tom would be helping her
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.
Jane asked Bob : "What did you buy yesterday?"
Jane asked Bob what ______.
  • he would buy the next day
  • he bought yesterday
  • he had bought the day before
  • he has just bought
  • his friend had already bought
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.
Peter said, "Alice, are you busy now?"
Peter asked Alice ______.
  • she was busy.
  • if she was busy then.
  • she would be busy.
  • if she wasn't busy then.
  • if she is busy.
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.
"Did you work at a factory $$3$$ years ago?" she asked her friend. She asked her friend if she ________.
  • worked at a factory $$3$$ years ago.
  • had worked at a factory $$3$$ years before.
  • really worked at a factory $$3$$ years before.
  • work at a factory.
  • worked at a factory for $$3$$ years.
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.
My sister said : "I hope we shall go on an excursion to the lake"
My sister said that ______on an excursion to the lake".
  • she hopes we will go
  • she didn't hope that we shall go
  • she hoped they would go
  • she hoped we were going
  • she hoped we can go
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.
He thought: "What am I going to do?"
He thought ___________________.
  • what was he going to do
  • what he was going to do
  • what he is going to do
  • it he was going to do
  • what is he going to do
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.
Tom : "Don't forget to bring my book, Ann".
Tom asked Ann ____________________
  • that she didn't forget to bring his book
  • that she doesn't bring his book
  • not to forget to bring his book
  • not to forget to bring her book
  • that she didn't forget to bring the book
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.
He said "I met him in $$1950$$."
He said _____.
  • I met him in $$1950$$
  • he had been met by him in $$1950$$
  • he used to met him in $$1950$$
  • he had met him in $$1950$$
  • he was meeting him in $$1950$$
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.
Ann : "Is your sister good at English?"
Ann asked me ________________.
  • that my sister is good at English
  • if my sister was good at English
  • whether my sister is good at English
  • my sister is good at English
  • her sister was good at English
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.
"Don't make so much noise, Michael, " said Ellen.
Ellen told Michael ____________ so much noise.
  • to make
  • not to make
  • do make
  • don't make
  • didn't make
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.
He has just said, "I want to speak to you".
He has just said ____________________.
  • he wants to speak to me
  • he wanted to speak to me
  • I want to speak to her
  • he had wanted to speak to me
  • he will want to speak to me
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.
"Where do you live?" my boss asked.
My boss wanted to know where _______.
  • do I live
  • did I live
  • I live
  • I had lived
  • I lived
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.
"Whose birthday is it?" said Jane.
Jane asked whose birthday _____.
  • it is
  • it
  • it was
  • is it
  • it had been
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.
"Did you sleep well?" I asked him.
I asked him if ______ well.
  • he sleeps
  • he slept
  • he had slept
  • you slept
  • you did sleep
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.
"You must do what you are told".
He said __________________.
  • that must do what I was told
  • what have to do what I was told
  • what had to do what I was told
  • that she must not do what she was told
  • she had to do what she was told
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.
Nick whispered: "I know that the boys were angry with me".
Nick whispered that ______________________.
  • he knows that the boys were angry with me
  • he knew that the boys were angry with him
  • he knows that the boys were angry with him
  • I know that the boys were angry with me
  • he knew that the boys had been angry with him
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.
"I spoke to Jane last week," she said.
She said _____________________
  • I spoke to Jane last week.
  • she had spoken to Jane last week.
  • she had spoken to Jane a week before.
  • I had spoken to Jane a week before.
  • she spoke to Jane a week before.
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