Reported Speech

1.- TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO REPORTED SPEECH: The banker told me: “Don’t give
me the money now.”

2.- TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO DIRECT SPEECH: “He asked her if she could tell him the
answer to those questions.”

3.- TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO REPORTED SPEECH: “These people are not listening to
their friends now," said the waiter.

4.- TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO REPORTED SPEECH: “Where did you hide my glasses?”
Lucy asked her little sister.

5.- TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO DIRECT SPEECH: “He asked me not to
leave the pilot unattended.”

6.- TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO REPORTED SPEECH: THE film star
said: “I fell in love last summer.”

7.- TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO REPORTED SPEECH: “Can you do me a
favour?”, Liz asked me.

8.- TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO REPORTED SPEECH:

“She may be a Muslim, because she covers her body and head with long clothes”, people
thought.

9.- TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO DIRECT SPEECH: The man asked
him if his visit would take long.

10.- TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO REPORTED SPEECH: He told his
daughters: "Don't talk aloud because your little brother is sleeping."

11.- TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO DIRECT SPEECH: “He asked her
to write to him while he was away.”

12.- TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO DIRECT SPEECH: He told me not
to do that again.

13.- TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO REPORTED SPEECH: “I don’t care if
doughnuts are unhealthy,” Mike said.

14.- TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO DIRECT SPEECH: “She said she was
going to live in a nice boat the following year.”

15.- TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO REPORTED SPEECH: Nada asked:
“Don’t they have any compassion?”