Reported speech and direct speech

Choose the correct answer.

  Steve said: “I work every day.”

• Steve said that he was working every day.

• Steve said that he had worked every day.

• Steve said that he worked every day.

• Steve said that he would work every day.

Choose the correct answer.

Rachel: “I’m playing the piano now.”

• She said that she was playing the piano now.

• She said that she played the piano then.

• She said that she was playing the piano then.

• She said that she had played the piano now.

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Dexter said: “I’ve bought a new car recently.”

• He said that he had bought a new car recently.

• He said that he bought a new car recently.

• He said that he has bought a new car recently.

• He said that he would have bought a new car recently.

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My little brother said: “I will never go to the circus again!”

• My little brother said that he would never go to the circus again.

• My little brother said that he would have never gone to the circus again.

• My little brother said that he would have never gone to the circus again.

• My little brother said that he was never going to the circus again.

Choose the correct option.

Marry: “I don’t like onion!”

• She said that she hadn’t liked onion.

• She said that she would like onion.

• She said that she didn’t like onion.

• She said that she wasn’t liking onion.

Choose the correct option.

Bob: “Don’t go there alone.”

• Bob asked me didn’t go there alone.

• Bob asked me not to go there alone.

• Bob asked me do not to go there alone.

• Bob asked me hadn’t gone there alone.

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Teresa: “He has done everything wrong again.”

• Teresa said that he did everything wrong again.

• Teresa said that he had been doing everything wrong again.

• Teresa said that he has done everything wrong again.

• Teresa said that he had done everything wrong again.

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She told us she was working that day.

• "I worked today."

• "I'm working today."

• "I'm working that day."

• "I was working."

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He told me he had been ill for a couple of weeks.

• 'I'll be ill for a couple of weeks.'

• 'I may ill for a couple of weeks.'

• 'I've been ill for a couple of weeks.'

• 'I could be ill for a couple of weeks.'

Choose the correct option.

He told me he would lend me the money.

• 'I'm going to lend you the money.'

• 'I'll lend you the money.'

• 'I lent you the money.'

• 'I'm lending you the money.'