Assignment (reported speech and passive voice)

Rewrite the sentences in reported speech using the words given.

‘I prefer fantasy to science fiction,’ he said. He said he _____ .

‘You have to look up the new words in the dictionary,’ the teacher said.

The teacher said we _____ .

‘I won’t tell you how the story ends,’ he said.

He said he _____ .

‘She’s writing a trilogy on Rome,’ they said.

They said she _____ .

‘I have never written children’s fiction,’ she said.

She said she _____ .

Complete the sentences with said or told.

She _____ she didn’t expect her novels to be successful.

Mrs Williams _____ her students to get a world atlas by the end of next week.

Complete the sentences with the passive form of the verbs given.

I can’t remember who the world wide web _____ by. (invent)

Unfortunately, the broadband here is not very fast. They say it _____ once already, but I don’t believe them. (upgrade)

A new antivirus software _____ on the computers – hopefully it works! (just/install)