Hexaware Speech and Tense Quiz 1

Answer - Sushmita asked me when was the last time I had watched a movie.

In an interrogative sentence, while converting from direct to indirect speech, the reported verb remains ‘asked’ and there is no use of the conjunction ‘that’. The next rule that follows is that the past tense in direct speech is changed into the past perfect tense. Therefore, the word “had watched” is added instead of ‘watched’.

Answer: She asked Nikhil which was his favorite cricket team.

Here in this question, simple present tense will be replaced by simple past tense. Hence, the conversion of is will change to ‘was’. The second rule should be to convert the pronoun here. Since in the direct speech it is stated ‘your’ it must change to his.

Here in this question the verb “might” does not change since “might” is a modal verb. Hence the tense and structure of the sentence remain the same.

Here in this question, the verb “can” will be replaced by “could” while changing from direct to indirect in an interrogative sentence. Here, the tenses are converted from simple present to simple past tense. The second rule standing here is converting ‘we’ to they since the speaker had asked to watch a movie on the behalf of all other people, including him. Lastly, we change ‘tonight’ to ‘that night’.

The tone of the sentence is a suggestion. Hence, the reporting verb here changes from said to suggested. Here, since the nutritionist is suggesting the speaker itself, we use suggested to me, and then do not change the verb ‘should’ since it’s only in the past modal form. The pronoun ‘you’ changes to ‘I’.

Answer:- attended

The sentence describes an activity that has already happened in the past, i.e., it is in past tense. So we use the verb “attended” which is the past tense of “attend”.

Answer:- was walking

There are two actions mentioned in the sentence, the recent one being (got hit by car) is in simple present tense and the former action, becomes past continuous tense. So we use the form, was + v1 (base form) + ing.

Answer:- had submitted

The sentence is in the past perfect tense, i.e., the action has been completed at some point in the past (before the deadline, in the sentence).
Therefore, we use the form “had+v3” (past participle) form.

Answer:- wore
The sentence is in the simple past tense, as the action here already occurred in the past. Therefore, we use the verb in v2 form.

Answer:- was reading

The sentence is in the past continuous tense, which means the action was being done in the past. Therefore we use the past continuous tense here. The verb form used is, was + v1+ ing.