Reported Speech Transport Quiz L1

If we tell people what someone else has said, this is called...

• Reported Speech

• Direct Speech

• Relative Clauses

• Conditionals

• I have no idea

Do we use the same words with reported speech and direct speech?

• Yes

• No

• I have no idea

Do we use speech marks in reported speech?

• Yes, always

• Yes, sometimes

• No, never

• I have no idea

What happens to the tense in reported speech?

• It usually goes back in time.

• It always stays the same.

• It usually goes forward in time.

• I have no idea.

What happens to the pronoun in reported speech?

• It usually changes

• It always stays the same

• I have no idea

"I'm on the bus", he told me yesterday.

What is this in reported speech?

• He said he is on the bus

• He said I'm on the bus.

• He said he was on the bus.

• He said he being on the bus.

Meena said, "I will call you when I get there."

What is this in reported speech?

• Meena said I will call you when I get there.

• Meena said I will call you when I got there.

• Meena said she would call me when she got there.

• Meena said she would call me when she get there.

"I'm busy so I won't come," she said.

What is this in reported speech?

• She said she was busy so she wouldn't come.

• She said she was busy so I wouldn't come.

• I said I'm busy so I won't come.

• I said I was busy so I wouldn't come.

He said, "I don't know if I can come."

What is this in reported speech?

• He said I didn't know if he could come.

• He said he didn't know if he could come.

• He said he didn't know if I could come.

• He said I don't know if I could come.

"I travel by train", she said.

What is this in reported speech? (Choose two answers)

• I said I travelled by train.

• I said I travel by train.

• She said she travels by train.

• She said she travelled by train.