Robert Bosch Speech & Voices Quiz 1

Explanation: The correct answer is “I will visit my grandmother tomorrow” because there are no grammatical errors in it and the sentence is in quotation marks.

Explanation for the incorrect answers: 

She said, “that she was tired”.-  We never use ‘that’ in a direct speech sentence. Hence, this sentence is not in direct speech.

He told her, “please be quiet”- We never use a pronoun in a direct speech sentence. In this sentence, ‘her’ has been used indicating that the sentence is incorrect.

Explanation: This question assesses the understanding of converting Direct speech to Indirect speech. The correct answer is option ‘He asked if they had watched the movie’ as it reports the speaker's words using a reporting verb (“He asked") and changes the verb tense ("watched" instead of "watch").

Explanations for incorrect answers

He said if the movie was watched by us- The sentence given to us was in interrogative form where we will add ‘ask’ instead of the question mark. In this sentence ‘said’ is written. Hence, the sentence is not in indirect speech.

He told us if we have watched the movie- This sentence has ‘told’ written in it but the original sentence was a question which means the sentence is wrongly framed here. Also, the sentence is in past tense and it should use ‘had’ instead of ‘have’.

He asked the people whether they have seen the movie- This sentence is incorrect because the sentence consists of a word ‘seen’ whereas the original sentence had a word ‘watch’ in this. When you use the word 'see', it refers to an action where you just notice or catch sight of something. The verb 'watch', on the other hand, means that you pay attention to something that you see or spend time observing. So, for the movie the word ‘watch’ is  used.

Explanation:

Explanation: This is an assertive sentence and as we know that the person is asking politely so the indirect sentence will be “he requested politely to close the door’.

As we can see, ‘please’ is included in the sentence which means that the person is requesting to close the door

Explanation: This question examines the ability to identify a sentence that reports someone's words using Indirect speech. The correct answer is  ‘they asked if they had arrived.

Explanation for incorrect answers

They told to me we have arrived- Whenever we use the word ‘told’ we never use ‘to’.

In this sentence, to has been used which means that the sentence formation is incorrect.

 

He said to me we had arrived- We only write ‘said’ and never write ‘said to me’. In this sentence, ‘said to me’ is written hence this sentence is incorrect.

They told me if they arrived- In this sentence, ‘told’ and ‘if’ together are written. If we are telling something then we can’t use ‘if. Therefore, this sentence is incorrect.

Explanation: This question assesses the ability to convert a sentence from Indirect to Direct speech.

The correct answer is “I love this song!, she exclaimed”. This sentence has no grammatical errors hence, this is the correct sentence.

Explanation for incorrect answer

She said,’that she loved that song’- This is an incorrect sentence because we never use ‘that’ in a direct speech sentence.

She told, ‘I am in love with this song’.- This sentence is incorrect because it changes the meaning of the original sentence.

She said to me, ‘I love that song’- This is an incorrect sentence because it has grammatical errors in it. We never use ‘to’ with ‘with’. Hence, this sentence is incorrect.

Explanation: For past indefinite tense the Auxiliary verb in active voice: was/were and in place of 'us' , subject pronoun 'we' will be used.

Explanation: For past continuous tense the structure in the passive voice will be 'Auxiliary verb in passive voice: was being/were being'.

Explanation: From passive to active:

The thief (Subject) was caught (verb in past participle form)by the police (Object).

Now the subject and object will interchange places and the verb will be in the past but without aux. verb ‘was’, ‘by’ will be removed. .

Explanation: From active to passive:

The hunter (subject) shot(verb in past tense) the tiger(object)

Now the subject and object will interchange. Verb will be in past participle form and ‘by’ will be added.

Explanation: The correct answer is ‘A circle was drawn by them in the morning’- is simple past hence it is in coherence with the question statement. For past indefinite(simple past), in passive voice, was+ third form of the verb+ them +by. Hence, correct.