Direct and Indirect Speech
My friend said to me, "Has your father returned from Calcutta?"

My friend enquired me if his father had returned from Calcutta.
My friend asked me if my father had returned from Calcutta.
My friend said to me that my father has returned from Calcutta.
My friend told me that his father had returned from Calcutta.

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Direct and Indirect Speech
The sage said, "God helps those who help themselves."

The sage said that God helps those who help themselves.
The sage said that God helped those who help themselves.
The sage said that God helped those whose helped themselves.
The sage said that God helps those who helped themselves.

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Direct and Indirect Speech
In the question below a sentence have been given in Direct/Indirect speech. From the given alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the given sentence in Indirect/Direct speech. The teacher asked me why I had been absent the day before.

The teacher asked me, "Were you absent the day before?"
The teacher asked me, "Why were you absent yesterday?"
The teacher asked me, "Why are you absent the day before?"
The teacher asked me, "Why are you absent yesterday?"

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Direct and Indirect Speech
In the question below a sentence have been given in Direct/Indirect speech. From the given alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the given sentence in Indirect/Direct speech. She said to me, "It has been raining heavily and you cannot go".

She told me that it had been raining heavily and I could not go.
She told me that it is raining heavily and I could not go.
She told me that it was raining heavily and I could not go.
She told me that it has been raining heavily and I could not go.

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Direct and Indirect Speech
"You can't bathe in this sea," he said to me, "it's very rough."

He said that I couldn't bathe in that sea as it was very rough.
He said that I can't bathe in this sea because it's very rough.
He said that you can't bathe in this sea since it was very rough.
He said that you couldn't bathe in the sea if it was very rough.

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