Time Shift and Reporting Verbs

Change the direct speech to indirect speech: He said, 'I can do it.'

• He said that he can do it.

• He said that he could do it.

• He said that he can do it.

• He said that he can do it.

Change the direct speech to indirect speech: She said, 'I may come late.'

• She said that she will come late.

• She said that she can come late.

• She said that she might come late.

• She said that she should come late.

Change the direct speech to indirect speech: They said, 'We must finish this today.'

• They said that they must finish tomorrow.

• They said that they should finish today.

• They said that they will finish that day.

• They said that they had to finish that that day.

Rewrite the sentence using the appropriate reporting verb: 'I am going to the party,' she said.

• 'She said that she was going to the party.'

• 'She said that she goes to the party.'

• 'She said that she is going to the party.'

• 'She said that she will go to the party.'

Change the direct speech to indirect speech: 'I can help you,' she said.

• She said she will help me.

• She said she could help me.

• She said she can't help me.

• She said she would help me.

Change the direct speech to indirect speech: 'I had to finish the project,' she said.

• She said that she needed to finish the project.

• She said that she has to finish the project.

• She said that she must finish the project.

• She said that she had to finish the project.

Change the direct speech to indirect speech: 'I have to finish my homework,' he said.

• He said that he has to finish his homework.

• He said that he had to finish his homework.

• He said that he must finish his homework.

• He said that he will finish his homework.

Rewrite the sentence using the appropriate reporting verb: 'I am cooking dinner,' she said.

• She said to cook dinner.

• She said that I am cooking dinner.

• She said that she will cook dinner.

• She said that she was cooking dinner