TOPIC :REPORTED SPEECH

Ques 1: Read the following conversation and complete the passage. Write your answers in the space
provided.
Mother : Why are you late from school, Amit ?
Amit : While coming from school to bus stop, slipped by stepping on a banana peel.
Mother : O, my son! Did you hurt yourself?
Amit : I got a bad bruise on my left knee.
Mother asked Amit _____________________________. Amit replied that while coming from
school to the bus stop , ___________________________________peel. Mother was shocked to
hear this. She further asked ___________________________. Amit answered that
________________________ .

Ques 2 ) Read the dialogue given below and then complete the report that follows. Write the
answers in your answer sheet against the correct blank numbers.

Anne : I want to order a big pineapple cake for my birthday.

Confectioner : When is your birthday?

Anne : It is tomorrow.

Confectioner : You can collect it by noon.

Anne told a confectioner ________________________ a big birthday cake for her birthday.
The confectioner asked _______________________________ Anne replied it was the

following day. The confectioner told her ______________________________ by noon.

Q.3 Read the following conversation and complete the paragraph .

Mother : Why are you looking so worried ?

Daughter : My exams are approaching.

Mother : When will they start ?

Daughter : Next month, mother.

Mother asked her daughter (a)_______________. The daughter replied that (b)_____________

Mother further asked (c)____________________. The daughter told her mother that they would be

in the following month.

Q.4. Read the following conversation and complete the paragraph.

Mother : Have you finished your paragraph writing?

Son : Yes, mother

Mother : How many lines have you written?

Son : I have written ten lines.

The mother asked her son if (a)_____________. The son replied in affirmative. The mother asked
(b)______________. The son replied that (c)______________.

Q.5. Read the following conversation and complete the paragraph.

Employer : Why did you leave your previous job ?

Applicant : They did’nt meet my requirement.

Employer : What salary do you expect here ?

Applicant : I am expecting Rs. 5000/- per month.

An applicant went for an interview in an office. The employer asked him (a)_____________.

The applicant replied that(b)________________. The employer further enquired (c)_____________.

The applicant told him that he was expecting Rs. 5000/- per month.

Q.6 Change the conversation into reported speech.

Customer:Please show me a good cap.

Salesman:What type of cap do you want?
Customer:One that covers the face.
Salesman:It wo’nt be a cap then ,It would be a mask,Sir!

The customer (a)____________________________.The salesman wanted to know

(b)_________________.The customer replied (c)______________________.The salesman
jokingly said that it (d)___________________________.
Q.7..Read the following conversation and complete the paragraph.

Principal: What is your name?

Aditi:My name is Aditi,Ma’am.
Principal: Have you come for admission?
Aditi: Yes,Ma’am.

The Principal asked the student(a)________.The student replied that (b)________.The Principal
asked her (c)________________.The student replied in the affirmative.

Q.8. Read the following conversation and complete the passage given below. (2)

Teacher: Have you solved all the sums,Mita?

Mita: No, Madam.
Teacher:Sit down. Solve them just now.

The teacher asked Mita (a)------- all the sums. Mita replied that she had not solved the sums.
Teacher asked (c)---------

Editing

Q.1. The following passage has not been edited .There is an error in each of the lines.

Write the error and the correction. (2 Marks)

When Karim and his wife come gasping into the camp,
(a) they see the fallen tree and Gajpati under it,
(b) after the search, they find the baby in the curl of
(c) elephant’s trunk. Karim’s wife pick up the baby
(d) and shouted. On the meantime Karim
took his axe and began to free the elephant.

Example : Error Correction

Come Came

Q.2. The following passage has not been edited .There is an error in each of the lines. Write the
error and the correction. (2 Marks)

Once upon the time, there lived

 (a) a frog in a forest. He sing throughout the night.
(b) He thought he was a best musician of
(c) the area. One day a nightingale come to
(d) that forest. She sang many melodious song.
(e) The frog was so astonished that he sat in an open mouth.

Example: Error Correction

the a

Q. 3.The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Write the
incorrect word and correction in your answer sheet. The first one has been done for you.

Error Correction

A beggar were standing at the bus stop were Was

He asking for some money (a )

but peoples were not paying any (b)

attention towards them. Then he (c)

comes to me and asked for a (d)

ten rupee note. As I putted my (e)

hand at my pocket, I found (f)

my purse was missed. (g)

Q.4. The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Write the
incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheet. The first one has been done for you.

error correction

Our Earth have been blessed with a large have has

Variety of resource, like water, (a)

forests or minerals. But only (b)

human beings can discovers, develop (c)

Or convert this resources into (d)

wealth. Thus the greater resource (e)

Of an Earth is the human being. (f)

Omission

Q 1. In the passage given below, one word has been omitted in each line. Write the missing word in your
answer sheet along with the word that comes before and the word that comes after it against the
correct blank number. ( 3 Marks)
(a) I badly wanted learn swimming,
(b) So I hired a trainer who train me
(c) for a month. After training was completed,
(d) I tried to swim alone, without
(e) anyone navigating me. I jumped the
(f) Pool which was three deep at one end
and eleven at the other. Icy horror grabbed my heart.

Q 2. In the passage given below, one word has been omitted in each line. Write the missing word in your
answer sheet along with the word that comes before and the word that comes after it against the
correct blank number. ( 4 Marks)

(a) When the Class IX examinations over, the Deputy

(b) Commissioner asked his son he had done his
(c) English paper well. The boy told him that was easy
(d) and that for one question had written that his
(e) father was washerman. The boy’s father shouted
(f) angrily but son replied, “ I did not know the
(g) spelling Deputy commissioner and I did not want
(h) to one mark”

Q 3. In the passage given below, one word has been omitted in each line. Write the missing word in your
answer sheet along with the word that comes before and the word that comes after it against the
correct blank number. ( 3 Marks)

(a) There was a fire our street yesterday morning.

(b) When I woke up, I looked of the window and saw
(c) smoke pouring out of house opposite. Then I
(d) saw fire engines arriving their sirens
(e) blaring. First one turned the corner and stopped outside
(f) the house. All the firemen dashed the house and
ran upstairs to the bedrooms.