Direct and Reported Speech

His father said, “Please, prepare two cups of coffee, Ode”.

Reported:

His father asked him _______ two cups of coffee.

• prepares

• to prepare

• prepared

• has prepared

“I want black coffee,” he jokingly adds.

Reported:

His father jokingly adds that he ______ black coffee

• wanted

• wants

• has wanted

• would want

“I can still recall how you ran after your mom and rolled on the dirt when you stumbled because of the wrong pair of slippers you’re wearing,” his father said.

Reported:

His father said that he _______________how you ran after your mom and rolled on the dirt when you stumbled because of the wrong pair of slippers you’re wearing,” his father said.

• can still recall

• could have recalled

• can still recalls

• could still recall

"What I do remember is the time we had in a park where you handed me a cotton candy. That is the oldest

picture I have in my memory, Dad,” Rodel says.

Reported:

Rodel says that what he _________ is the time they had in a park where his father handed him a cotton candy.

• remembers

• remember

• remembered

• has remembered

“Give me that coffee”, his father asks.

Reported:

His father asks (Rodel) _______ him the coffee.

• gives

• gave

• to give

• has given

Rodel says ____ he wants to pursue a college degree, but he ___ worried if ____ can make it to college and survive with that condition.

• that-was-his

• that-is-he

• if-has-he

• whether-is-he

His father asks ____ he doubt ____ now when he has made it ____ far.

• would-his-that

• why-him-so

• would-himself-that

• why-himself-that

His father says ____ the pieces of ____ that seem to shatter because of fear and ____ he has reached that

point in his life and there shouldn’t be any room for doubt.

• to pick up-herself-that

• to pick up-himself-that

• that-himself-if

• to pick up-themselves-that

How do we write this direct speech to reported speech?

- Wendell said, “I am feeling sad today.”

• Wendell said, that he was feeling sad that day

• Wendell said that he is feeling sad today.

• Wendell said that he was feeling sad that day.

• Wendell said he felt sad that day.

Which of the following sentences is correct?

• Mary said, “We passed by a beautiful mountain in Pampanga.”

• . Mary said. “We passed by a beautiful mountain in Pampanga."

• Mary said “We passed by a beautiful mountain in Pampanga.”

• Mary said, “We passed by a beautiful mountain in Pampanga?”