English grammar exercise about reported speech. ... Reported Statements 1. Change the direct speech into reported speech. ... 6) "I didn't go to the party.".
direct speech: 'It wasn't me who finished the coffee,' he said. indirect speech: He denied finishing the coffee. Try this exercise to test your grammar. Grammar ...
DIRECT QUOTE: INDIRECT (REPORTED) SPEECH: SIMPLE PRESENT changes to SIMPLE PAST "I work at Toyota." "I don't work at Honda." "I am a manager." "I'm not a salesman." He said he worked at Toyota. He said he didn't work at Honda. He said he was a manager. He said he wasn't a salesman.: PRESENT PROGRESSIVE changes to PAST PROGRESSIVE
9. She said David hadn’t arrived / didn't arrive until 10 o'clock. 10. She told me they had gone / went to the park to have a picnic. 11. She told me they had eaten / ate Chinese food, then they walked home. 12. He told me she had forgotten / forgot to bring the CDs. 13. She said she hadn’t liked / didn't like the food in the restaurant. 14.
Change this direct speech into reported speech: 11. “I don’t like chocolate” She told me _____ 12. “I won’t see you tomorrow” She said _____ _ 13. “She’s living in Paris for a few months” She said _____ _ 14. “I visited my parents at the weekend” She told me _____ 15. “She hasn’t eaten sushi before” She said
INDIRECT (REPORTED) SPEECH TENSE CHANGE LIST ; "I will wash the dishes." "I won't go." She said she would wash the dishes. He said he wouldn't go. ; "I can dance.
(Tense of reported speech didn’t change) Change in Tense of Reported Speech for all TENSES: Present Simple Change In To Past Simple. Direct speech PRESENT SIMPLE He said, “I write a book” He said, “she goes to school daily” They said, “we love our country” He said, “he does not like computer” Indirect speech PAST SIMPLE
Reported later: “He said that he wasn't playing football.” Sometimes the pronoun needs to be changed. Direct speech: Jane: “I don't like living here.” ( ...
03.03.2013 · Reported speech involves back-shifting; the changing of a present tense to a paste tense: He said, "I know she is coming" He said that he knew she was coming. But if the verb in direct speech is already in past tense, we don't always back-shift, because we run the risk of ambiguity. He said, "I didn't know he was coming."
15.09.2010 · Hello! all my grammar books say that "could" remains "could" when it's in reported speech. In the following sentence, however, I feel it would be more accurate to "backshift" "could" and turn it into "hadn't been able to" because otherwise it is not clear if she couldn't sleep at the moment of speaking or if it was the night before that she couldn't sleep.
Complete the sentences in reported speech. Note the change of pronouns in some sentences. "Don't touch it," she said to him. → She told him "Don't do that again," he said to me. → He told me "Don't talk to me like that," he said. → He told her "Don't repair the computer yourself," she warned him. → She warned him "Don't let him in," she said.
Reported speech: She said that she loves to play football. (Note 1 : Assume a gender if not mentioned already. Note 2: Using “that” is optional. This sentence could also have been written as “She said she loves to play football.”) The tense doesn’t have to be changed in this case of reported speech.
* doesn't change. Occasionally, we don't need to change the present tense into the past if the information in direct speech is still true (but this is only for things which are general facts, and even then usually we like to change the tense): Direct speech: The sky is blue. Reported speech: She said …
Reported Speech Reported speech puts the speaker's words or ideas into a sentence without quotation marks. Noun clauses are usually used. In reported speech, the reader does not assume that the words are the speaker's exact words; often, they are a paraphrase of the speaker's words. Example Hai asked Manny where he was going.