Reported Speech - Unit 21

LOS CURSOS DE INGLES GRATIS PREFERIDOS POR LOS HISPANOHABLANTES

 

REPORTED SPEECH: Direct to Reported.

 

EXERCISE A

Put the following into reported speech.

 

1.  "I'll come with you as soon as I am ready", she replied.

2.  "It isn't so sunny today as it was yesterday", Sandra remarked.

3.   "Will you be here for the next twenty minutes?", she said.
      "Yes", I answered.

 

4.  "Don't take your coat off. We are going out again in a few minutes", he told her.

 

5.  "Guys, put the message into a bottle and throw it into the sea", said the captain.

 
 

EXERCISE B

Put the following into reported speech.

 

1.  "What makes you think Mr. Minor is going to resign?", Helen asked.

2.  "Don't drive too fast or the baby will be sick", Marisa said to her husband.

 

3.  "From our office windows we can see Palermo woods and the Uruguayan coast", reported OM Personal.

4.  The students were asked: "Do you have many suicides in your country? Do you think suicide is a crime"?

5.  "We have moved into our new house but we don't like it so much as our last one", said Ted.

 

 

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