REPORTED SPEECH

1. “ I have something to show you”, I said to her.

2. “ Nothing grows in my garden. It never gets any sun”, she said.

3. “ I’m going away tomorrow, mother”, he said.

4. “I’ve been in London for a month but so far I haven’t had time to visit the tower”, said Rupert.

5. “ It isn’t so foggy todays as it was yesterday,” I remarked.

6. “The new underpass is being officially opened the day after tomorrow” said the BBC announcer.

7. “I have a German lesson this afternoon and I haven’t done my homework yae”, said the small
boy.

8. “ If you let the iron get too hot you will scorch your clothes”, I warned her.

9. “I’m going fishing with mother this afternoon”, said the small boy, “and we are going into the
garden now to dig for worns”.

10. “Go and get me a paper, and come straight back,” he said to me.

11. “ Watch the milk and don’t let it bil over”, he said.

12. “ Don’t drive too fast or the baby’ll be sick,” she said to her husband.

13. “ Tell them not to work too fast,” said the workman. “If we finish before six we shan’t get any
overtime”.

14. “Don’t take your coat off. We are going out again in a moment,” she told him.

15. “ Don’t touch it. You will make it worse,” he told me.

16. “ I wrote to him the day before yesterday. I wonder why he hasn’t run up”, she said.

17. This is quite a good model, madam. I use one of them myself”, said the shop assistant.

18. “ If I had spoken to my father as you speak to me he’d have beaten me”, he said to me.

19. “ If it rains this afternoon it will be too wet to play the maych tomorrow”, the captain said

20. “ I meant to plug in the electric blanket but I plugged in the electric kettle by mistake.
Unfortunately there was no water in the kettle and that is why all the lights went out”, she told
her guests.
 Answer key
1.I said to her I had something to show her. 2. She said (that) nothing grew in her garden because it
never gets (got) any sun.3. He said to his mother that he was going away the next day. 4. Rupert said
(that) he had been in London for a month but until that moment ( then) he hadn’t had time to visit the
tower. 5. I remarked (that) it wasn’t so foggy that day as it was the day before. 6. The BBC announcer
said that the new underpass was being officially opened in two days’ time ( two days after).7. the small
boy said he had a German lesson that afternnon and he hadn’t done his homework yet..8. I warned her
that if she let the iron get too hot she would scorch her clothes. 9.The small boy said he was going
fishing with mother that afternoon and they were going into the garden then ( at that moment).10.He
told me to go and get him a paper, and come straight back. 11.He told me to watch the milk and not to
let it boil over.12. She told her husband not to dirve too fast or the baby would be sick.13.She told him
not to take his coat off because they were going out again in a moment.14. he told me not to touch it
because I would make it worse.15. The workman told me to tell them not to work too fast because if we
finish before six we shouldn’t get any overtime.16. She said (that) she had written to him two days
before and she wondered why he hadn’t rung up. 17. the shop assistant said to the lady it was quite a
good model and she used one of them herself. 18. he said to me if he had spoken to his father as I spoke
to him, his father would have beaten him. 19. The captain said if it rained that afternoon it would be too
wet to play the match the next day. 20. She told her guest that she meant to plug in the electric blanket
but she plugged in the electric kettle by mistake because unfortunately there was no water in the kettle
and that was why all the lights went out.