Latihan Direct & Indirect Speech

The correct answer is "She said she was going to meet her penpal for the first time the next day." This is because the original statement indicates that the speaker will meet their penpal the day after the statement was made, which is tomorrow. Therefore, "the next day" accurately reflects the timeline mentioned in the original statement.

The correct answer is "He said that he began to understand the concept of Biodiversity." This is because the sentence is in reported speech, where the person is reporting what someone else said. In this case, the person is reporting that someone said they began to understand the concept of biodiversity.

The correct answer is "He asked me if they had eaten out together the day before." This is the correct answer because it accurately reflects the past tense of the question and uses the correct pronoun "they" and the correct adverb "together." The phrase "the day before" also accurately reflects the time frame mentioned in the original question.

The correct answer is "He told me not to turn off the light at that time." This is the correct answer because it uses the correct structure of reporting someone's speech. When reporting someone's speech, we use the verb "to tell" followed by the direct object "me" and then the reported speech in reported speech form. In this case, the reported speech is "not to turn off the light at that time."

The correct answer is "He told me that my friend had just left." This answer is correct because it maintains the correct tense agreement between the reported speech and the reported statement. The original statement "Your friend has just left" is reported in the past tense as "my friend had just left." This accurately reflects that the friend's departure occurred in the past relative to the time of reporting.

The correct answer is "She asked me whether she could borrow my pencil for a moment." This is because the question is in reported speech, which requires a change in tense. The original question "Can I borrow your pencil for a moment?" is in the present tense, but when reporting it, we need to change it to the past tense. Therefore, "could" is used instead of "can" to indicate past tense. Additionally, the correct question word to use in reported speech is "whether" instead of "if."

The correct answer is "They said they had been there for a week." This is because the original statement "We have been here for a week" is being reported by someone else, so the pronouns need to be changed accordingly. "We" becomes "they" to reflect the change in perspective, and "here" becomes "there" to reflect the change in location. The verb tense also changes to past perfect ("had been") to indicate that the action of being there for a week had already occurred at the time it was reported.

The given correct answer is "He said that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west." This answer is correct because it accurately reflects the reported speech and maintains the same tense as the original statement. The reported speech is in the past tense, as indicated by the verb "said," so the verb tenses in the reported speech should also be shifted to the past tense.

The correct answer is "He asked her why she was staring at his feet." This is because the question is in the past tense, as indicated by the use of "asked" and "staring." Therefore, the verb in the reported speech should also be in the past tense, which is "was."

The correct answer is "She wanted to know what my passion was." This is the correct answer because in reported speech, the word order changes and the question becomes a statement. In reported speech, we use the word "was" instead of "is" and we do not invert the subject and verb. Therefore, the correct form is "She wanted to know what my passion was."