Reported Speech

‘I can swim really fast.’

• He said me that he could swim really fast.

• He told that he could swim really fast.

• He said that he could swim really fast.

‘There was an accident outside the supermarket’.

• He said there has been an accident outside the supermarket.

• He said there were an accident outside the supermarket.

• He said there had been an accident outside the supermarket.

Tom said ‘I’m going to London tomorrow.’

Five days later you say...

• Tom said he is going to London the following day.

• Tom said he was going to London the following day.

• Tom said he was going to London tomorrow.

Which sentence is NOT correct?

• James said he will help me.

• Karen said she was going to be late.

• Lisa said she didn’t have a map.

Maria apologised for not coming. She said she had been busy ____.

• that day

• the following day

• previous day

Paul: ‘I won’t be at the meeting tomorrow.’

Paul said that he_______________ at the meeting the following day.

Me: ‘I’ve done it!’

I told you that I ____________.

Danny: ‘I’m going to be late’.

Danny told me that he ____________ to be late.

George: “I can’t chat because I’m working”.

George said that he ______________ because he was working.

Hannah: “I want to go to the football match, but I don’t have enough money”.

Hannah said that she _____________ to go to the football match, but she didn’t have enough money.