Reported Speech Quiz

'Have you eaten ALL the cake?' She asked me …

Answer explanation

Have you eaten = present perfect, therefore, we change the present perfect to the past perfect

We also change the question structure into the statement structure.

"... if I had eaten all the cake"

'We were hoping to have our wedding in June.' → She told me that they ___ to have their wedding in June. In the end, though, they got married in September.

• Had been hoping

• Are hoping

• Have been hoping

My best friend at school became a nurse first, then a paramedic.' → He told me that his best friend at school ___ a nurse first, then a paramedic.

• Was becoming

• Had become

• Has become

'Did you meet each other at school?' He asked them …

• If did they meet in school

• If they’d met at school

• Had they met at school

'Where will you stay?' I asked her …

• If she would stay

• Where would she stay

• Where she would stay

'I had lived in four countries by the age of ten.' → She said that she ___ in four countries by the age of ten.

• Lived

• Was living

• Had lived

'How often do you use public transport?' She wanted to know …

• How often I used public transport

• How I used often public transport

• How often did I use public transport

'Were you listening to me?' She asked us …

• Why we’d been listening to her

• Whether we’d been listening to her

• If we were listening to her

'Who else have you told?' They asked me …

• Who else we’d told

• If have we told

• Who had we else told

'Oh, hi, Ethan! I'm just leaving, unfortunately.' → When I got there I saw him, but he said he ___.

• Is just leaving

• Was just leaving

• Had just left