Reported Speech Rules, Examples and worksheet No.13

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Exercise-13

1. Read the given conversation and complete the following passage:

Jasleen: Hello Eshana, where are you going?

 Eshana: Hello Jasleen, I am going to attend Raveena’s birthday party.

 Jasleen: Has Raveena invited many people for her birthday party?

 Eshana: I don’t know, but she must have invited you for the party.

 Jasleen   :   No, I have not been invited. Maybe she has forgotten to invite me.

 Eshana: It is bad to forget classmates on one’s birthday

Jasleen: I don’t feel bad for not being invited.

Eshana: You have a big heart.

Jasleen greeted Eshana and asked her where she was going. Eshana (a) _______ . Jaleen wanted to know if Raveena had invited many people. Eshana replied that she didn’t know but hoped that (b) _______ . Jasleen told her that she had not been invited. She thought she (c) _______ . Jasleen commented that it was bad to forget classmates on one’s birthday. Jasleen ignore her comment and said that she didn’t feel bad for not being invited. Eshana complimented her saying that (d) _______ .

2. Read the given conversation and complete the following passage:

Akash: Hello Prakash ! Where are you coming from?

Prakash: I have just been to the railway station to purchase a ticket for my brother for Delhi.

Akash: When is he going to Delhi?

Prakash: On the 18th.

Prakash: My sister told me that you were also planning to go.

 Akash:   Yes, but not now. Perhaps in May. I have an examination next week.

Prakash: All the best then.

Akash asked Prakash where he was coming from. Prakash replied that he (a) _____  a ticket for his brother for Delhi. Akash enquired (b) _______ to Delhi to which Prakash

replied 18th. Prakash further enquired that his sister had told him that (c) _____ _.Akash told him that he would perhaps go in May as he (d)_____ _. Prakash wished him luck

Answers:-      

  1. (a) replied that she was going to attend Raveena’s birthday party

        (b) that she must have invited her (Jasleen) for the party

        (c) she had perhaps forgotten to invite her.

        (d) she had a big heart.

  1. (a) had been to the railway station to purchase

        (b) when he was going

        (c) he had also been planning to go

        (d) had an examination the following week.

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