REPORTED SPEECH

She told the boys ________ on the grass.

• do not play
• not playing
• did not play
• not to play

The teacher told Jim ________

• to stop talking
• stop talking
• stops talking
• stopped talking

The mother told her son ________ so impolitely.

• not behave
• not to behave
• not behaving
• did not behave

He asked ________ him the books he needed.

• her to lend
• she to lend
• she has lent
• she lends

She told him ________.

• patient
• to be patient
• was patient
• that being patient

Tom told me that they ________ meat since ________

• have not eaten / last year
• did not eat / the following year
• had not eaten / the year before
• would not eat / the next year

She said she ________ take me home after school.

• would
• did
• must
• had

I have ever told you he ________ unreliable.

• is
• were
• had been
• would be

John said he had worked on the report since ________

• yesterday
• two days ago
• the day before
• the next day

John told me that ________

• I must go now
• he must go now
• he had to go now
• he had to go then