Choose the best indirect/reported speech for each of the following direct speeches. If you choose a wrong answer, you can still choose another to find the correct one. However, there will be a score penalty every time you choose a wrong answer. Your overall score will be based on the percentage of your correct or incorrect answers.
- He said, "I want to go home."
- He said that I want to go home.
- He said that he wants to go home.
- He said that I wanted to go home.
- He said that he wanted to go home.
- "I have finished the report," Jim said.
- Jim said that I had finished the report.
- Jim said that he had finished the report.
- Jim said that I have finished the report.
- Jim said that he finishes the report.
- Mary asked me, "Can you speak Spanish?"
- Mary asked me I could speak Spanish.
- Mary asked me could you speak Spanish.
- Mary asked me if you could speak Spanish.
- Mary asked me whether I could speak Spanish.
- I told him, "Please show me your ID card."
- I told him please show me his ID card.
- I asked him to show me your ID card.
- I asked him to show me his ID card.
- I told him to show me your ID card.
- She said, "I am making a new dress."
- She said that I was making a new dress.
- She said that she is making a new dress.
- She said that I am making a new dress.
- She said that she was making a new dress.
- "Where did you find the information?" I asked her.
- I asked her where did you find the information.
- I asked her where she had found the information.
- I asked her where did she find the information.
- I asked her where you had found the information.
- He told her, "Please finish the story."
- He asked her to finish the story.
- He told her please finish the story.
- He asked her to please finish the story.
- He told her finish the story.
- "Can you find the documents?" she asked.
- She asked you could find the documents.
- She asked if you could find the documents.
- She asked me to find the documents.
- She asked whether I could find the documents.
- Dad said, "You should knock at the door before coming in."
- Dad said that you should knock at the door before coming in.
- Dad told me that I knocked at the door before coming in.
- Dad suggested that he knock at the door before coming in.
- Dad suggested that I knock at the door before coming in.
- "Don't shout!" said the teacher.
- The teacher said don't shout.
- The teacher told us not to shout.
- The teacher told us did not shout.
- The teacher told us to not shout.
- "Do you remember the number?" the policeman asked
- The policeman asked me if you remember the number.
- The policeman asked you whether to remember the number.
- The policeman asked me to remember the number.
- The policeman asked me if I remembered the number.
- She said, "Would you like some coffee?"
- She asked if you liked some coffee.
- She said that you would like some coffee.
- She offered me some coffee.
- She asked whether I liked coffee.
- "Don't use too much paint on the front gate," he said to the boy.
- He asked the boy not to use too much paint on the front gate.
- He said the boy did not use too much paint on the front gate.
- He said to the boy do not to use too much paint on the front gate.
- He told the boy did not use too much paint on the front gate.
- She asked the gardener, "How often do you water the flowers?"
- She asked the gardener how often do you water the flowers.
- She asked the gardener whether he often waters the flowers.
- She asked the gardener how often you watered the flowers.
- She asked the gardener how often he watered the flowers.
- "Let's wash these clothes," they said.
- They said let's wash these clothes.
- They suggested washing those clothes.
- They asked me to wash those clothes.
- They let me wash those clothes.
- "Do you play badminton?" he asked her.
- He asked her if you play badminton.
- He asked her whether she played badminton.
- He asked her whether he played badminton.
- He asked her to play badminton.
- He said, "I don't intend to go to town today."
- He said that I don't intend to go to town today.
- He said that you didn't intend to go to town that day.
- He told them not to intend to go to town that day.
- He said that he didn't intend to go to town that day.
- "Where did the accident happen?" she asked him.
- She asked him where did the accident happen.
- She asked him the accident had happened where.
- She asked him where the accident had happened.
- She asked him where had the accident happened.
- The teacher told the students, "We will announce the exam result soon."
- The teacher informed the students that they would announce the exam result soon.
- The teacher told the students to announce the exam result soon.
- The teacher suggested the students that they announce the exam result soon.
- The teacher asked the students if they would announce the exam result soon.
- He explained to me, "They are going to discuss the proposal at the next meeting."
- He explained to me that they are going to discuss the proposal at the next meeting.
- He explained to me that we are going to discuss the proposal at the next meeting.
- He explained to me that they were going to discuss the proposal at the next meeting.
- He explained to me that we were going to discuss the proposal at the next meeting.