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Reported Speech Indirect Requests Reported and Indirect Questions

1. The document discusses reported and indirect speech, including reporting verbs, tense changes when reporting speech, and examples of indirect requests and questions. 2. It provides exercises on ordering words to form reported requests, choosing the correct reported tense, identifying accurate reported sentences, and completing sentences with reporting verbs. 3. The document also covers verbs related to honesty and morals, with an exercise filling in a short story with these verbs.

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Reported Speech Indirect Requests Reported and Indirect Questions

1. The document discusses reported and indirect speech, including reporting verbs, tense changes when reporting speech, and examples of indirect requests and questions. 2. It provides exercises on ordering words to form reported requests, choosing the correct reported tense, identifying accurate reported sentences, and completing sentences with reporting verbs. 3. The document also covers verbs related to honesty and morals, with an exercise filling in a short story with these verbs.

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REPORTED SPEECH

Indirect requests

Reported and indirect questions

1 Order the words to make sentences.

3 Tick ( ) the correct sentences.

the boys / I / away / asked / to go

I asked the boys to go away.


1 the truth / me / asked / she / to tell

Mum asked if I wanted anything to eat.


1 The police asked Ben how long was he

staying.

___________________________________________

2 The girl asked Joe where he came from.

___________________________________________

3 Sue asked Anna whether she was going to

2 us / told / noisy / the teacher / not to be


___________________________________________
___________________________________________
3 to tidy / asked / I / her / her bedroom

the party.
4 The boys asked I if they could borrow my
football.
5 Polly asked Dan where does he live.

___________________________________________
___________________________________________
4 to stay / the doctor / him / told / in bed
___________________________________________
___________________________________________
5 him / not / anything / she / to say / asked

Verbs: honesty and morals


4 Complete the text with the verbs in the box.
breakfeltkeepmadepretendedtell
People tell lies for all kinds of reasons.

___________________________________________

When Joe lost his job he decided to

___________________________________________

(1)_______________ quiet about it and not tell his


wife. Every morning he (2)_______________ to go to

Reported speech: tense changes


2 Choose the correct words in the reported
sentences.

work. But after a week, he (3)_______________


really guilty. He decided to tell his wife the truth.
Ive (4)_______________ a mistake, said Joe.
I promise I wont lie to you again.

Im hungry, he said.
He said that he is / was hungry.

Dont (5)_______________ that promise! she said.

1 Were baking a cake, they told me.


They told me that they re / were baking a cake.
2 Your mum has just phoned, said Dan.
Dan said that my mum had / have just phoned.
3 I took the money, admitted Lucy.
Lucy admitted that she had / has taken the
money.

Reporting verbs
5 Complete the sentences with the reporting verbs
in the box.
admittedagreedcomplained
convincedinvitedrefused
Jack complained that his meal was cold.

4 Ill speak to your teacher, said Dad.


Dad said that he had / would speak to my
teacher.

1 Holly _______________ me to buy the shoes.


2 The boys _______________ that they had broken
the window.

5 You must eat your dinner, Grandma told us.


Grandma told us that we must / had to eat our
dinner.

3 Tom _______________ to eat his carrots because


he didnt like them.
4 Jessica _______________ Luke to stay for dinner,

6 You can borrow my mp3 player, said Luke.


Luke said I could / would borrow his mp3 player.

but he had to go home.


5 The girls _______________ to be friends again.

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