Reported Speech

The teacher promised ___ .

• A) that we can learn three English songs.

• B) if we learn three English songs.

• C) we would learn three English songs

• D) whether we would learn three English songs.

Bill: “Have you seen any interesting comedy lately, Nancy?”

Bill asked Nancy ___ .

• A) if he will see an interesting film

• B) if he saw an interesting comedy lately

• C) what comedy Nancy saw lately

• D) if she had seen any interesting comedy lately

Ann: Write down my address.

Ann asked me ___ .

• A) he wrote down my address

• B) to write down her address

• C) he had written her address

• D) she writes down her address

Lena said, “Where have you been yesterday?”

Lena asked ___ .

• A) where she had been the day before.

• B) where she had been yesterday.

• C) where she was the day before.

• D) where she could be the day before

“Don’t play in the street!”

• A) My mother told me don’t play in the street.

• B) My mother said to play in the street.

• C) She asked me to play in the street.

• D) My mother told me not to play in the street.

“Do you go in for sports?”, he asked.

He asked ___ .

• A) he went in for sports.

• B) if I went in for sports.

• C) if I’ll go in for sports.

• D) I should go in for sports.

My sister said: “I hope we shall go on an excursion to the lake”.

My sister said that ___ on an excursion to the lake”.

• A) she hopes we will go

• B) she didn’t hope that we shall go

• C) she hoped they would go

• D) she hoped we were going

She said she ___ her friend for ages.

• A) didn’t

• B) hadn’t seen

• C) hasn’t seen

• D) doesn’t see

He asked her “Did anybody call this morning?”

He asked her ___ .

• A) if anybody called this morning

• B) if somebody had called that morning

• C) if somebody called that morning

• D) who called that morning

He says “What do the pupils study?”

He asks ___ .

• A) what do the pupils study.

• B) what the pupils study.

• C) what the pupils studied.

• D) what the pupils have studied study.