Worksheet of Direct and Indirect Narration (With Solutions)

    If you are learning Narration from the very beginning then you are in the right place. In this post, we shall discuss some basic direct and indirect narration change. If you have the basic knowledge on Narration try checking your skills with this worksheet.

Before starting the exercise first let's discuss some basic things -

    In narration change, a direct speech is given which you have to transform into an indirect speech.

If a speech of a speaker is said by another person it is called Narration. It is also called speech. There are two kinds of narration. -

1) Direct Narration (direct speech) and

2) Indirect Narration (indirect speech).

1. Direct Narration is said by the speaker himself. It is also called quotation.

2. and the Indirect narration is said by someone else.

A direct speech looks like this:

Robert said, "I want to drink water."

In this speech, the speaker (Robert) has directly said what he wants to do.

But if we say,

Robert said that he wanted to drink water.

    In the above sentence someone is saying Robert's speech but indirectly.

    The meaning of the two sentences are totally same but the first one is said by the speaker (Robert) himself and the second one is said by someone else.

    So the first one is called direct speech and the second one is called indirect speech. There are many rules of changing direct speech into an indirect one and also for vice-versa. I wish that you have learnt some of them. So let's test that -

Transform the following direct speech into indirect speech :

1. He said, "I am playing."

2. I said, "I am doing my homework."

3. You said, "I am happy."

4. The teacher said, "You are a good boy."

5. She said, "I went there."

6. I say, "I love my country."

7. Father said, "I am going for a tour tomorrow."

8. Dip said, "I went to school yesterday."

9. Uncle said, "The earth is round."

10. You said, "Here it is".

Let's look at the solution below :

1. He said, "I am playing."

Answer: He said that he was playing.
2. I said, "I am doing my homework."

Answer: I said that I was doing my homework.
3. You said, "I am happy."

Answer: You said that you were happy.
4. The teacher said, "You are a good boy."

Answer: The teacher that I was a good boy. / The teacher said that you were a good boy.

5. She said, "I went there."

Answer: She said that she went there.

6. I say, "I love my country."

Answer: I say that I love my country.
7. Father said, "I am going for a tour tomorrow."

Answer: Father said that he is going for a tour the following day.

8. Dip said, "I went to school yesterday."

Answer: Dip said that he went to school the previous day.

9. Uncle said, "The earth is round."

Answer: Uncle said that the earth is round.

10. You said, "Here it is".

Answer:  You said that there it was.

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