Reported speech

Rewrite the sentences in reported speech:

"All my stories are set here, in my home town," the author (male) said.

The author said that (a)  

Rewrite the sentences in reported speech:

"You have to look up the new words in this dictionary," the teacher said to us.

The teacher said that ...

(a)  

Rewrite the sentences in reported speech:¨

"I'll tell you how the story ends if you don't finish the book by tonight," he told me.

He said that ...

(a)  

Rewrite the sentences in reported speech:

"She's presenting her Rome trilogy today," the said.

They said that (a)  

Rewrite the sentences in reported speech:

"I haven't written children's fiction before, but I may start a book next year," she said.

She said that (a)  

Rewrite the sentences in reported speech:

"I prefer fantasy to science fiction," he said.

He said that (a)  

Rewrite the sentences in reported speech:

"I won't tell you where I was," he told me.

He said that (a)  

Rewrite the sentences in reported speech:

"She's going to start going to school next month," said John.

John said that (a)  

Rewrite the sentences in reported speech:

"We have seen all your films," the students told the actor.

The students told the actor that (a)  

Rewrite the sentences in reported speech:

"My dad was a teacher," he said.

He said that (a)