Mastering Reported Speech

Identify the direct speech: She said, 'I am going to the store.'

• 'I am going to the store.'

• She said, 'I went to the store.'

• She said, 'I am going to the market.'

• She said, 'I will go to the store.'

Change to reported speech: He said, 'I will finish my homework.'

• He said that he would finish his homework.

• He said that he will finish his homework.

• He said he had finished his homework.

• He said that he would have finished his homework.

Change the verb tense: 'They are playing soccer' to reported speech.

• They said they were playing soccer.

• They said they are playing soccer.

• They said they played soccer.

• They said they were play soccer.

Adjust the pronouns: 'I told her, 'You are my best friend.''

• He told her, 'He is my best friend.'

• She told me, 'She is my best friend.'

• I told her, 'You are my only friend.'

• She told him, 'You are my best friend.'

Change to reported speech: 'We have seen that movie,' they said.

• They said that they have seen that movie.

• They said that they had seen that movie.

• They said that they will see that movie.

• They said they saw that movie.