Reported Speech

She said, "I am reading."

• She said that she was reading.
• She said that she were reading.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.6.3A

They said, "We are busy."

• They said that they were busy.
• They said that they had been busy.

She said, "I woke up early."

• She said that she had woken up early.
• She said that she has woken up early.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.6.3A

He said, "I will ring her."

• He said that he would have rung her.
• He said that he would ring her.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.6.3A

Melissa said, "I have been to India three times.”

• Melissa said that I had been to India three times.

• She said that she has been to India three times.

• She said that she had been to India three times.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.6.3A

Peter said, "Tim went to the Stadium yesterday."

• Peter told me that Tim went to the Stadium yesterday.

• Peter told me that he went to the Stadium yesterday.

• Peter told me that he had gone to the Stadium yesterday.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.6.3A

'I can swim really fast'

• He told me that he could swim really fast.

• He said that he could swim really fast.

• He said me that he could swim really fast.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1

CCSS.L.9-10.2

Christopher: "Do you want to dance?". Christopher wanted to know

• if I wanted to dance.

• if I had wanted to dance.

• If I could dance.

• If I was dancing

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.6.3A

Maria, when will you come? Maria asked me...

• when I would come.

• when I could come.

• when I had come.

• when I was coming.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.6.3A

Katie, what is the cat doing? Katie wanted to know...

• what the cat was doing.

• what the cat had been doing.

• what the cat would do.

• what the cat could do.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.6.3A