Reported Speech - B1

Rewrite this sentence using reported speech.

Jessica: "Don't play football in the garden."

• Jessica told me do not play football in the garden

• Jessica said to me not to play football in the garden

• Jessica told me not to play football in the garden.

• Jessica said me not to play football in the gardem

Rewrite this sentence using reported speech.

Mary: "Are you reading that book now?"

• Mary wonders if I was reading that book then

• Mary said Are you reading that book now?

• Mary asked me if I was reading that book then

• Mary wanted to know if I was reading that book then

Rewrite this sentence using reported speech.

Alice: "I spent all my pocket money last weekend."

• Alice said that she spent all her pocket money last weekend

• Alice complained that she had spent all her pocket money the previous weekend/weekend before.

• Alice told me that she had spent all her pocket money the previous weekend/weekend before

• Alice said to me that she had spent all her pocket money the previous weekend/weekend before

Change these direct questions into reported speech:

Mary: “Why did you go out last night?”

• She asked me why I went out last night.

• She wanted to know why I went out last night

• She asked me why I had to go out last night

• She wanted to know why I had gone out last night

Change these direct questions into reported speech:

“What were you doing when I saw you?”

• She wanted to know what I was doing when she saw me

• She asked me what I had been doing when she saw me

• She wanted to know what I was doing when she sees me

• She asked me what I have been doing when she saw me

Change these direct questions into reported speech:

“Where will you live after graduation?”

• She asked me if I would live after graduation

• She asked me If I will live after graduation

• She asked me where I would live after graduation.

• She asked me where I will live after graduation

Change these direct questions into reported speech:

“Can you help me?”

• She asked me if I can help her

• She asked me if I can help her

• She ask me if I could help her

• She asked me if I could help her

Change these direct questions into reported speech:

“Have you studied reported speech before?”

• She asked me if I have had studied reported speech before

• She asked me if I have studied reported speech before

• She ask me if I had studied reported speech before

• She asked me if I had studied reported speech before.

Change the direct questions into reported questions:

Is John at home?

• She asked me if John was at home.

• She said if John was at home

• She wanted to know if John was at home

• She wants to know if John was at home

Change the direct questions into reported questions:

"Does it rain a lot in London?"

• She asks me if It had rained a lot in London

• She asks me If it rains a lot in London

• She asked me if it rained a lot in London

• She asked me if it rains a lot in London