English Practice Question and Answer

Q:

Select the most appropriate indirect form of the given sentence.

Taru said, “Kavya is going to her grandmother’s house today for the weekend.”

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    Taru said that Kavya is going to her grandmother’s house today for the weekend.
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    Taru said that Kavya has gone to her grandmother’s house that day for the weekend.
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    Taru said that Kavya was going to her grandmother’s house today for the weekend.
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    Taru said that Kavya was going to her grandmother’s house that day for the weekend.
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Answer : 4. "Taru said that Kavya was going to her grandmother’s house that day for the weekend."

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Rewrite the sentence in direct speech.

Sumanth said that he would have called a doctor.

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    Sumanth said, "I will call a doctor"
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    Sumanth said, "I will be calling a doctor"
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    Sumanth said, "I will have called a doctor"
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    Sumanth said, "I should call a doctor"
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Answer : 3. "Sumanth said, "I will have called a doctor" "

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Choose the correct one word 'A study of the human race.'

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    Anthropology
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    Archaeology
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    Etymology
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    Ethnology
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Answer : 1. "Anthropology"

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Choose the correct one word for this sentence 'Plea that a person charged with a crime was elsewhere when it was committed.'

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    alimony
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    alibi
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    amnesty
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    anarchist
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Answer : 2. "alibi"

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Choose the correct indirect speech of the following sentence from the given options:
 He said, "They are in the class."

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    He said that they were in the class.
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    He says that they are in the class.
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    He said that they had been in class.
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    He says that they are in the class.
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Answer : 1. "He said that they were in the class."

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Read the passage carefully and give the answer of following questions.

Looking back on those days Isee myself as a kind of centaur, half boy, half bike, forever wheeling down suburban streets under the poincianas, on my way to football practice or the library or to a meeting of the little group of us, girls and boys, that came together on someone's verandah in the evenings after tea.
I might come across the Professor then on his after dinner stroll; and as often as not, he would be accompanied by my father, who would stop me and demand (partly, I thought, to impress the Professor) where I was off to or where I had been; insisting, with more than his usual force, that I come home right away, with no argument I spent long hours cycling back and forth between our house and Ross McDowell or Jimmy Larwood's, my friends from school, and the Professor's house was always on the route, I was always aboard and waiting for something significant to occur, for life somehow to declare it self and catch me up I rode my bike in slow circles or figures-of-eight, took it for sprints across the gravel of the park, or simply hung motionless in the saddle, balanced and waiting.

The boy's father was trying to gain the Professor's approval, hence

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    he followed the Professor on his evening walks.
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    he pretended to be interested in observing the stars.
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    he boasted to the Professor about his son's riding skills.
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    he would make a display of his parental skills on seeing the narrator.
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Answer : 4. "he would make a display of his parental skills on seeing the narrator."

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