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Reported Speech Exercises with Answers

This document provides examples of reported speech, showing how to change direct quotes into indirect speech. It includes 24 examples of direct quotes and how they should be changed to reported or indirect speech. The examples cover changing pronouns, adverbs of time, and direct quotation marks among other transformations needed to change direct to reported speech.

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Reported Speech Exercises with Answers

This document provides examples of reported speech, showing how to change direct quotes into indirect speech. It includes 24 examples of direct quotes and how they should be changed to reported or indirect speech. The examples cover changing pronouns, adverbs of time, and direct quotation marks among other transformations needed to change direct to reported speech.

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Object 1

REPORTED SPEECH

Mum said: " I'm angry with you"


Mum said she__________angry with me

Geoffrey said: I'm cooking lunch today

Geoffrey said he ___________________lunch ________________

My boyfriend said: I'll go to the cinema tomorrow

My boyfriend said he______________________to the cinema____________________

Her teacher said: " You must do your homework every day"

Her teacher said she __________________do her homework every day

Their father said: " I can speak three languages"

Their father said he __________________speak three languages

Paul said: "I have been on holidays"

Paul said he _____________________on holidays


[Link] said, “My head is aching “.
Sarah said that .

[Link] said, “You can borrow my book”.


Michael told me that .

[Link] teacher said, “Turn the music down”!


The teacher ordered us .

[Link] admitted, “I haven’t brushed my teeth yet.”


Paul admitted that

[Link] Smith wanted to know ,” Where is he going”?


Mr Smith wanted to know .

[Link] asked,” Are you feeling well?”


Mom asked me

[Link] David said, “Please take off your shoes when you come in!”
Uncle David told us

[Link] policeman ordered, “Move your car out of the way!!”


The policeman ordered us

[Link] father said, “ I could swim very fast when I was a child”
My father said that

[Link] asked, “Where did you meet him?”


Jimmy asked me

[Link] said, „I have just got back from New York”


Mary said that

[Link] said, „I am going to work for a new company next week.”


John said that

[Link] teacher told us, “ Sicily is an island in the southern part of Italy”
Our teacher told us that

[Link] asked me, “Can I come to the meeting tomorrow?”


He asked

[Link] wondered, “Is he a club member?”


Jane wondered

[Link] teacher said to Karen, “Please stand up”


The teacher told Karen

[Link] said, “Don’t shout!”


Geraldine told us
[Link] asked me, “Did you see that car over there?”
Jerry asked me

[Link] wanted to know, “Will you be at the party next Saturday”?


Bobby wanted to

[Link] doctor said, “You must stay in bed .”


The doctor ordered me
[Link] Jackson advised me, “I would not go there because it is dangerous!”
My Jackson advised me

[Link] scientist said, “Atoms are the smallest elements.”


The scientist said that atoms

[Link] grandmother said, “ When I was young, there were no cell phones”
My grandmother said that

[Link] coach said, “I won’t be able to be at the next game”


My coach said that

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