Question

Read the conversation given below and tap the correct statements.

Tim said, 'Yay! How flavourful the cake batter is!'
Tim exclaimed with joy that the cake batter was very flavourful.

• A. Both the sentences are correct
• B. Both the sentences are incorrect
• C. The first sentence uses direct speech and the second uses reported speech.
• D. The first sentence uses reported speech and the second uses direct speech.

Answer 1

Answer: (A), (C)

The first sentence uses direct speech and the second uses reported speech.

Here, the first sentence uses quotation marks to express a sentence in direct speech and the second sentence correctly reports it using the reporting verb 'exclaimed'.