UNIT 6: Grammar Check
GROUP A
Name: ________________________
Class: ________________________
6.4 Reported commands and requests
1 Rewrite the commands and requests in
reported speech.
0 ‘Open your mouth.’
The doctor told me to open my mouth.
1 ‘Don’t sit down.’
The nurse told me
_______________________________________.
2 ‘Stay in bed for at least four days.’
He told me
_______________________________________.
3 ‘Can you do something for me, please?’
She asked me
_______________________________________.
4 ‘Please don’t move for a minute.’
The doctor asked me
_______________________________________
5 ‘Put your hands in the air.’
She told us
_______________________________________.
6 ‘Please wait for the doctor.’
She asked us
_______________________________________.
7 ‘Don’t eat anything for six hours.’
He told me
_______________________________________.
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2 Complete the text with the correct form of the
verbs in brackets.
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When Peter went to hospital the nurse asked (ask)
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him _______________ (tell) her what had
happened. He told her that he had fallen off his bike.
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She _______________ (tell) him
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_______________ (not/move) until she had
examined him. Then the doctor came and
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_______________ (ask) him _______________
(explain) why he hadn’t been wearing his bike helmet
while he had been cycling. Peter’s parents always
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_______________ (tell) him _______________
(not/ride) his bike without wearing his helmet, but he
had forgotten it that day. Then the doctor asked him
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_______________ (move) his legs. Luckily he
hadn’t injured himself too badly.
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