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Indirect Speech


Level: Intermediate



1. "We'll lend you a hand," he told me.

He told me that we would lend him a hand.
He told me that they would lend me a hand.
He told me that we will lend him a hand.
He said that he would lend me a hand.
He told that he will lend me a hand.




2. 'Have we got everything we need?' he said.

He said if we had everything we needed.
He told me where we had got everyting we needed.
He asked me for everything they needed.
He asked if they had everything they needed.
He wanted to know for everything they needed.




3. "Don't come home late," her mother said.

Her mother said not to come home late.
Her mother asked if she didn't come home late.
Her mother wanted to know if she was coming home late.
Her mother told her not to come home late.
Her mother told her that she didn't come home late.




4. 'Please marry me now,' she said to him.

She said to him that they married then.
She said to him if he married her then.
She begged if he married her now.
She begged him to marry her then.
She ordered him to marry her right then.




5. 'Would you like (to have) some brandy?' she said.

She asked for some brandy.
She asked that I should have some brandy.
She told me if I would like to have some brandy.
She said that if I would like some brandy.
She offered me some brandy.




6. 'Why are you still here?' they said to us.

They told us why we were still there.
They said to us why we were still here.
They asked us why we were still there.
They asked us why were we still there.
They asked us why were we still here.




7. 'I like enjoying the simple pleasures that life has to offer.' he always says.

He always says that he liked enjoying the simple pleasures that life had to offer.
He always said that he liked enjoying the simple pleasures that life had to offer.
He always says that he likes enjoying the simple pleasures that life has to offer.
He always says that he enjoyed the simple pleasures of life.
He always says that he liked enjoying the simple pleasures of life.




8. "Somebody has been smoking my Havanas," he said. "There is only one left."

He said that somebody had been smoking his Havanas because there was only one left.
He said that somebody has been smoking his Havanas because there was only one left.
He said that there was only one Havana left, and somebody had been smoking.
He wanted to know why somebody had been smoking his Havanas.
He was angry because somebody had been smoking his Havanas.




9. 'I may not come tomorrow.' she said yesterday.

She said yesterday that she may not come tomorrow.
She said yesterday that she may not come the following day.
She said yesterday that she might not come tomorrow.
She said yesterday that she might not come the following day.
She said yesterday that she might not come today.




10. 'I went to visit my grandma yesterday,' he said. 'I visit her every Sunday.'

He said that he went to visit his grandma the previous day, and that he visits her every Sunday.
He said that he had gone to visit his grandma the previous day and that he visits her every Sunday.
He said that he went to visit his grandma yesterday, and that he visited her every Sunday.
He said that he has gone to visit his grandma yesterday and that he visited her every Sunday.
He said that he has gone to visit his grandma the day before and that he visited her every Sunday.


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