Reported Speech
Reported questions
(To report commands, request, suggestions we use a reporting verbs (order, ask, tell, advise, offer, warn, beg, suggest) followed by to – infinitive or not to – infinitive.)
Ex. 3. Report the police-officer’s questions to the shop owner.
1. What’s your name? ____________________________________________________________________
2. Did you see the robbers? ________________________________________________________________
3. What were they wearing? _______________________________________________________________
4. How do you think they got in? _____________________________________________________________
5. What did they take? ___________________________________________________________________
6. Has this ever happened before? __________________________________________________________
Ex. 4. Turn from direct speech into reported speech.
1. “I’ve finished all my work,” she said. ________________________________________________________
2. “Why are you looking at me like that? She asked him. __________________________________________
3. “Don’t play with matches, “ his mother said. _________________________________________________
4. “I’ve forgotten to bring my lunch with me,” he said. ____________________________________________
5. “Will you be home soon?” she asked her husband. ____________________________________________
6. “Go to bed!” Father said to the children. ____________________________________________________
7. “I’ll clean the car tomorrow,” Tim said to his father. ____________________________________________
8. “Where have you been?” Gary asked his wife. __________________________________________________
9. “I’ve been working for the same company since 1960,” he said to me. _______________________________
“Do you know Garfield?” she asked me. _____________________________________________________
Reported questions
(To report commands, request, suggestions we use a reporting verbs (order, ask, tell, advise, offer, warn, beg, suggest) followed by to – infinitive or not to – infinitive.)
Ex. 3. Report the police-officer’s questions to the shop owner.
1. What’s your name? ____________________________________________________________________
2. Did you see the robbers? ________________________________________________________________
3. What were they wearing? _______________________________________________________________
4. How do you think they got in? _____________________________________________________________
5. What did they take? ___________________________________________________________________
6. Has this ever happened before? __________________________________________________________
Ex. 4. Turn from direct speech into reported speech.
1. “I’ve finished all my work,” she said. ________________________________________________________
2. “Why are you looking at me like that? She asked him. __________________________________________
3. “Don’t play with matches, “ his mother said. _________________________________________________
4. “I’ve forgotten to bring my lunch with me,” he said. ____________________________________________
5. “Will you be home soon?” she asked her husband. ____________________________________________
6. “Go to bed!” Father said to the children. ____________________________________________________
7. “I’ll clean the car tomorrow,” Tim said to his father. ____________________________________________
8. “Where have you been?” Gary asked his wife. __________________________________________________
9. “I’ve been working for the same company since 1960,” he said to me. _______________________________
“Do you know Garfield?” she asked me. _____________________________________________________
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Ex.3 1. The police-officer inquired what the shop owner`s name was. 2. The police-officer wanted to know whether the shop owner had seen the robbers. 3. The police-officer inquired what they had been wearing. 4. The police-officer asked the shop owner how he thought they had got in. 5. The police-officer wanted to know what they took. 6. The police-officer inquired if that had ever happened before.
Ex.4. 1. She said that she had finished all her work. 2. She asked him why he was looking at her like that. 3. His mother told not to play with matches. 4. He said that he had forgotten to bring his lunch with him. 5. She asked her husband whether he would be home soon.6. Father ordered the children to go to bed. 7. Tim promised his father that he would clean the car tomorrow. 8. Gary asked his wife where she had been. 9. He said to me that he had been working for the same company since 1960. She asked me if I knew Garfield.