Key to Reported Speech

1.Helen said she wouldn’t be there because she was having a party.

2.Jack said he had lost the map and he didn’t know the way.

3.Carol said when she finished the book and she was going to watch television

4.Mike said he was doing some homework but that he wouldn’t be long.

5.Mary said she liked swimming but that she didn’t go very often

6.Richard said he had got up late and missed the bus that morning

7.Jill said he was going to visit friend in Fiji but he wasn’t sure when

8.Tony said he wanted to buy it but that he hadn’t brought any money

9.He said his parents had taken him to the zoo the previous day/ the day before.

10. He said they would open the library the following week

1. He asked why I hadn’t done the exercise

2. He wanted to know what kind of cookie the book advertised

3. She asked me if I was staying there all summer

4. his mother asked him if he had done his homework or he hadn’t

5. I asked Sue when her birthday was

6. My father asked me if I had remembered to lock the door.

7. He wondered if the Lord of the Rings had been written by William Golding

8. We wondered if we could leave that night or the following morning.

9. She wanted to know if I was going to work then

10. She asked if the students would be on holiday the following July

1. He asked her not to leave

2. The boss told them not to smoke in his office

3. The hostess told the guests to help themselves to food and drink.

4. The nurse asked the visitors to keep quiet

5. She told the driver to take the children home

6. The police instructed me to give him my papers

7. The father told his son not to forget to phone him

8. My neighbour invited me to go over for supper the following Friday

9. The librarian told the readers not to make a noise

10. The conductor told the passengers to hold tight