13. Reported Speech
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1. Change the direct speech into reported speech (mixed):
1. told me not to listen him
2. said that he was travelling the following week
3. asked me to bring him his food
4. said that Adán had gone to Australia six years ago
5. told me to be quick
6. asked me to help her with her exercise
7. asked me where I would live
8. said that they had gone to a restaurant and then they watched a movie
9. recommended me going to the doctor soon
10. said that she was coming
11. asked me what I was doing on Christmas day
12. told me not to go out that night
2. Change the direct speech into reported speech (mixed):
1. asked me if I had ever seen the northern lights
2. asked me if I studied in TLA
3. asked me where Trafalgar Square was
4. told me not to do that exercise
5. said that she had to come the following day
6. recommended me having a good time the following day
7. “said that he loved travelling
8. asked me if she was happy
9. asked me to wait for a while
10. asked me how often I played beach volley
11. told me not to go that far
12. asked me how my birthday had been
3. Change the direct speech into reported speech (mixed):
1. My best friend told me that he hadn’t seen his girlfriend since the previous month.
2. Mark asked Anne to lend him her notes.
3. They said that they were going to the countryside the following day.
4. My father reminded my sister not to forget to lock the door.
5. Laura asked John if he had enjoyed the concert.
6. Pablo informed his classmate that he had to finish that report that night.
7. The girl asked the receptionist what time the train left.
8. They said that they would help me if I needed them.
9. The doctor recommended me not eating so much junk food.
10. Maria told her parents that she had been reading when they called her.
11. My mother told me to be careful with that knife.
12. She told her mother that she might visit her cousins the following summer.
4. Change the direct speech into reported speech (mixed):
1. Tom suggested going to the beach that afternoon.
2. She said that she had been studying for three hours.
3. Susan asked her son why he hadn’t told her the truth.
4. My parents told the receptionist they weren’t staying at that hotel again.
5. The teacher ordered me not to make so much noise.
6. He asked the girl if she would marry him.
7. Sara told her friends that she couldn’t find her keys anywhere.
8. The engineer told the students that they didn’t have to touch that button.
9. They said to the teacher that they had been waiting for the bus for an hour.
10. Lucy asked her parents to open the window.
11. My parents asked my sister when she was going to finish her homework.
12. Mia told Mark that she would call him as soon as she arrived.