Reported speech ex

Reported speech
Exercises
Exercise 1. Complete the sentences in reported speech. Note whether the sentence is a request, a statement or a question.

He said, "I like this song ."
→ He said
"Where is your sister?" she asked me.
→ She asked me
"I don`t speak Italian," she said.
→ She said
"Say hello to Jim," they said.
→ They asked me
"The film began at seven o`clock," he said.
→ He said

that he liked that song
where my sister was
that he didn’t speak Italian
to say hello to Jim
that the film had begun at seven o’clock
answer
Exercise 1. Complete the sentences in reported speech. Note whether the sentence is a request, a statement or a question.
"Don`t play on the grass, boys," she said.
→ She told the boys
"Where have you spent your money?" she asked him.
→ She asked him
"I never make mistakes," he said.
→ He said
"Does she know Robert?" he wanted to know.
→ He wanted to know
"Don`t try this at home," the stuntman told the audience.
→ The stuntman advised the audience

not to play on the grass
where he had spent his money
he had never made mistakes
if she knew Robert
not to try that at home
answer
Exercise 2. Complete the sentences in reported speech. Note whether the sentence is a request, a statement or a question and whether you have to change the tenses or not.
"I was very tired," she said.
→ She said
"Be careful, Ben," she said.
→ She told Ben
"I will get myself a drink," she says.
→ She says
"Why haven`t you phoned me?" he asked me.
→ He wondered
"I cannot drive them home," he said.
→ He said

that she had been very tired
to be careful
that she will get herself a drink
why I hadn’t phoned him
that he could not drive them home
answer
"Peter, do you prefer tea or coffee?" she says.
→ She asks Peter
"Where did you spend your holidays last year?" she asked me.
→ She asked me

He said, "Don`t go too far."
→ He advised her
"Have you been shopping?" he asked us.
→ He wanted to know
"Don`t make so much noise," he says.
→ He asks us
Exercise 2. Complete the sentences in reported speech. Note whether the sentence is a request, a statement or a question and whether you have to change the tenses or not.
answer
if he preferred tea or coffee.
where I had spend my holidays the previous year
not to go too far
if we had been shopping
not to make so much noise
Exercise 3.Complete the sentences in reported speech. Note the change of pronouns in some sentences.
"Stop talking, Joe," the teacher said.
→ The teacher told Joe
"Be patient," she said to him.
→ She told him
"Go to your room," her father said to her.
→ Her father told her
"Hurry up," she said to us.
→ She told us
"Give me the key," he told her.
→ He asked her

to stop talking
to be patient
to go to her room
to hurry up
to give him the key
answer
"Play it again, Sam," she said.
→ She asked Sam
"Sit down, Caron" he said.
→ He asked Caron
"Fill in the form, Sir," the receptionist said.
→ The receptionist asked the guest
"Take off your shoes," she told us.
→ She told us
"Mind your own business," she told him.
→ She told him

Exercise 3.Complete the sentences in reported speech. Note the change of pronouns in some sentences.
answer
to play it again
to sit down
to fill in the form
to take off our shoes
to mind his own business
Exercise 4.Complete the sentences in reported speech. Note the change of pronouns in some sentences.
She said, "Go upstairs."
→ She told me
"Close the door behind you," he told me.
→ He told me
"Don`t be late," he advised us.
→ He advised us
"Stop staring at me," she said.
→ She told him
"Don`t be angry with me," he said.
→ He asked her

to go upstairs
to close the door behind me
not to be late
to stop staring at her
not to be angry with him
answer
Exercise 4.Complete the sentences in reported speech. Note the change of pronouns in some sentences.
"Leave me alone," she said.
→ She told me
"Don`t drink and drive," she warned us.
→ She warned us
"John, stop smoking," she said.
→ She told John
"Don`t worry about us," they said.
→ They told her
"Meet me at the cinema." he said.
→ He asked me

answer
to leave her alone
not to drink and drive
to stop smoking
not to worry about them
to meet him at the cinema
Exercise 5.Complete the sentences in reported speech. Note the change of pronouns and tenses.
"Where is my umbrella?" she asked.
→ She asked
"How are you?" Martin asked us.
→ Martin asked us
He asked, "Do I have to do it?"
→ He asked
"Where have you been?" the mother asked her daughter.
→ The mother asked her daughter
"Which dress do you like best?" she asked her boyfriend.
→ She asked her boyfriend

answer
where her umbrella was
how we were
if he had to do it
where she had been
which dress he liked best
Exercise 5.Complete the sentences in reported speech. Note the change of pronouns and tenses.
"What are they doing?" she asked.
→ She wanted to know
"Are you going to the cinema?" he asked me.
→ He wanted to know
The teacher asked, "Who speaks English?"
→ The teacher wanted to know
"How do you know that?" she asked me.
→ She asked me
"Has Caron talked to Kevin?" my friend asked me.
→ My friend asked me

answer
what they were doing
if I was going to the cinema
who spoke English
how I knew that
If Carol had talked to Kevin
Exercise 6.Complete the sentences in reported speech. Note the change of pronouns and tenses.
"What`s the time?" he asked.
→ He wanted to know
"When will we meet again?" she asked me.
→ She asked me
"Are you crazy?" she asked him.
→ She asked him
"Where did they live?" he asked.
→ He wanted to know
"Will you be at the party?" he asked her.
→ He asked her

answer
what the time was
when we would meet again
if he was crazy
where they had lived
if she would be at the party
Exercise 6.Complete the sentences in reported speech. Note the change of pronouns and tenses.
"Can you meet me at the station?" she asked me.
→ She asked me
"Who knows the answer?" the teacher asked.
→ The teacher wanted to know
"Why don`t you help me?" she asked him.
→ She wanted to know
"Did you see that car?" he asked me.
→ He asked me
"Have you tidied up your room?" the mother asked the twins.
→ The mother asked the twins

answer
if I could meet her at the station
who knew the answer.
why he didn’t help her.
if I had seen that car.
if they had tidied up their room