Reported Speech Exercises
These reported speech exercises are presented in questions test format with answers by Grammar teachers. At the explanations tab, we listed several reported speech & indirect speech examples and sentences with rules, formula, form and structure. And at the worksheet tab, you can download these exercises as pdf or word files for free.
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Choose the correct option to complete the Reported Speech Exercises below.
1
"Why are you crying?" he asked.
a.
He asked why I was crying.
b.
He asked why I had been crying.
c.
He asked why I cried.
2
"She had already left when I arrived," he said.
a.
He said she had already left when I had arrived.
b.
He said she had already left when he arrived.
c.
He said she left when he arrived.
3
"I'm going to buy a new phone," she said.
a.
She said she was going to buy a new phone.
b.
She said she had been going to buy a new phone.
c.
She said she is going to buy a new phone.
4
"I may go to the party," he said.
a.
He said he might go to the party.
b.
He said he may went to the party.
c.
He said he could go to the party.
5
"Please open the window," she asked.
a.
She asked me to open the window.
b.
She asked me open the window.
c.
She asked me that I open the window.
6
"They didn’t understand the question," she said.
a.
She said they hadn’t understood the question.
b.
She said they didn’t understand the question.
c.
She said they don’t understand the question.
7
"I'll call you when I get home," he said.
a.
He said he would call me when he had got home.
b.
He said he would call me when he got home.
c.
He said he would have called me when he got home.
8
"Do your homework!" the teacher told us.
a.
The teacher told us that we do our homework.
b.
The teacher told us do our homework.
c.
The teacher told us to do our homework.
9
"They have been working here for five years," he said.
a.
He said they have been working there for five years.
b.
He said they had been working there for five years.
c.
He said they had worked there for five years.
