Reported Speech (changing tenses)

He said, "I really like these cakes."

He said that _______________.

She said, "I am reading in the library."

She told me that ______________.

Matthew said, "We have been here before."

Matthew said that ___________________.

Joe declared, "I prepared for the test."

Joe declared that __________________.

Tom told his mother, "I was trying to tell Mary the truth but she wasn't listening."

Tom told his mother that ___________________.

"I was walking to the beach when I saw the accident," reported Jim.

Jim reported that ________________________.

Tommy said, "Ray was asleep by the time I came home."

Tommy said that _____________________.

Gary insisted, "I always pay for the music I download."

Gary said that _________________.

"We are going shopping," my mother told me.

My mother told me that __________________.

"The bus is late again," Sally moaned to her friend.

Sally complained to her friend that __________________.