REPORTED SPEECH PRACTICE
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‘They are playing football,
he said
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He said that
they were playing football
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‘I’ll pay you the day
after tomorrow’, Jim said
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Jim said that
he would pay us/them two days after
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‘I don’t eat fish’, Jane
said
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Jane said that
she didn’t eat fish
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‘Where are the books which
I lent you?’, he asked me
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He asked me
where the books which I lent you were
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‘Have you ever travelled
to
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I asked him if
he had ever travelled to
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‘They have brought this
parcel today’, they said
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They said that
they had brought that parcel that day
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‘Can you read English
newspapers?’, he asked her
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He asked her
if she could read English newspapers
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‘Please don’t be late’ she
said to her sister
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She asked her
sister not to be late
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‘Did Mary pass the driving
test?’ my brother asked me
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My brother
asked me if Mary had passed the driving test
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‘They will finish tomorrow’
my mother said to us
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My mother told
us that they would finish the following day/the day after/the next day
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‘They do what they are
told to’, he said
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He said that
they did what they were told to
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‘He has never read a
complete book’, he said to me
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He told me
that he had never read a complete book
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‘When did you leave school?’,
he asked me
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He asked me
when I had left school
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‘They have discovered
water in the moon’, the news said
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The news said
that they had discovered water …
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‘I met Mary’s sister three
years ago’, she said
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She said that
she had met Mary’s sister 3 years before
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‘I was in
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He said that
he had been in
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‘My son won a prize the
day before yesterday’, Susan said
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Susan said
that her son had won a prize 2 days before
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‘Don’t do what you are
doing’, she said to me
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She told me
not to do what I was doing
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‘Please don’t smoke
here!’, he said to me
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He asked me
not to smoke there
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‘I’ve had an argument with my husband’, the policewoman said to me |
The policewoman told me that she had
had an argument with her husband
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