Speech Marks

They said, “We took exercise.”

Change into indirect speech.

• They said that they had taken exercise.

• They said that they taken exercise.

• They said that they have taken exercise.

They said, “We will take exercise.”

Change into indirect speech.

• They said that they take exercise.

• They said that they would take exercise.

• They said that they took exercise.

They said, “We were taking exercise.”

Change into indirect speech.

• They said that they had been taking exercise.

• They said that they were been taking exercise.

• They said that they have been taking exercise.

She said, “I´ve found my keys!”

Change into indirect speech.

• She said that she had find her keys.

• She said that she had found her keys.

• She said that she found her keys.

They asked me “Did you see Tom at the cinema last night?”

Change into indirect speech.

• They asked me if I saw Tom at the cinema last night.

• They asked me if I have seen Tom at the cinema the previous night.

• They asked me if I had seen Tom at the cinema the previous night.

He asked me “Do you know where the post office is?”

Change into indirect speech.

• He asked me if I knew where the post office is.

• He asked me if I know where the post office is.

• He asked me if I knew where is the post office .

Ram said, “Here is the pen I have been looking for.”

Change into indirect speech.

• He asked me I knew where the post office is.

• Ram said that here were the pen he had been looking for.

• Ram said that here was the pen he had been looking for.

“We shall go on a picnic” he said to me.

Change into indirect speech.

• He told me they would go on a picnic.

• He told me they will go on a picnic.

• He told me they had gone on a picnic.

He says, “I am ill.”

Change into indirect speech.

• He says that he was ill

• He says that he is ill.

• He says that I am ill

She says, “She sang a song.”

Change into indirect speech.

• She says that she sang a song.

• She says that she sung a song.

• She says that she sing a song.