reported speech

Reported speech

Poll

To repeat what someone else said in reported speech style, I have to:

• only change the pronouns

• change the pronouns and say it one tense back in the past

• do nothing

Poll

To repeat what someone sad in direct speech I need to:

• use quotation marks

• do nothing

Poll

Now, to transform reported speech (e.i. from an article) to direct speech, I have to:

• do nothing

• add quotation marks and go one tense forward

• add quotation marks

Commands/Imperative form

What's the difference between "she told me..." and "she told me to..."

Poll

"she told me..." vs. "she told me to..."

• they mean the same thing

• the second one is an order

Multiple Choice

"We can't find the pants"

• They said they can't find the pants.

• They said they couldn't find the pants.

• They said they hadn't found the pants

Multiple Choice

"These pants are not mine"

• He said the pants weren't his.

• He said the pants aren't his.

• He said the pants weren't mine

Multiple Choice

His pants, he said, had blue stripes on them

• My pants have blue stripes on them

• "My pants have blue stripes on them"

• "His pants had blue stripes on them"

Multiple Choice

"I was a victim of a fraud"

• He said he was a victim on a fraud.

• He said I had been a victim of a fraud.

• He said he had been a victim of a fraud.

Multiple Choice

He said the Chungs were breaking the law.

• "They were breaking the law"

• "They was breaking the lay"

• "They are breaking the law"

Multiple Choice

"The movie will be interesting"

• He said the movie would be interesting

• He said the movie was interesting.

• He said the movie will be interesting

Multiple Choice

"Leave me alone!" he told me.

• He told me to leave him alone

• He told me, I leave him alone

• He told me I was going to leave him alone

Multiple Choice

"Don't run across the road" the police officer told the kids.

• The police officer told the kids to not run across the road.

• The police officer told the kids not to run across the road.

• The police officer told the kids to don't run across the road.

Multiple Choice

"What are you doing?", she asked me.

• She asked me what I was doing.

• She asked me what was I doing.

• She asked me I was doing what.

Multiple Choice

He said Daniel had bought the tickets.

• "Daniel had been bought the tickets"

• "Daniel is bought the tickets."

• "Daniel has baught the tickets."