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Change the following sentences
into indirect speech. Be careful of your tenses. |
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She said, "I'll
complete my work tomorrow."
She said that she
would complete her work the next day. |
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The girl wrote, "I'm
coming home on the next boat." |
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He boasted, "I lived
many days underground and survived." |
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I told him, "I'll
submit these forms tomorrow." |
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"If you finish your
work early, I'll tell you a story," the teacher promised them. |
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She said angrily, "I
won't forgive him unless he apologizes." |
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"She will say 'I
don't care' if I tell her," her brother said. |
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He says, "There is a
civil war on the island now. The natives are running wild." |
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Marshal told
Margaret, "I'll lend you my notes if you will let me have your
book." |
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My father said, "When
I was a boy, I used to play 'Red Indians' and not 'Astronauts'." |
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"It rained very
heavily last night and I got wet," he said. |
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He said urgently, "We
must go now. We can't delay even a minute longer." |
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"I know the place
well," she informed me. "I'll show you around." |
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The overseer told the
laborers, "You must finish harvesting the crops by next week." |
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"The incident
happened years ago when the first settlers came here," the old
man said. |
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"The sun is about one
hundred and forty-nine million kilometers from the earth," the
teacher told us. |
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"You mustn't believe
everything that Susan tells you," I told Betty. |
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"A documentary film
is going to be shown in the hall," the teacher said. "You must
go to the hall now." |
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His friends consoled
him, "No one is to blame for the accident." |
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"We must come here
more often," Lucy said. "We know so many people here." |
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"I've lost
everything," the old woman moaned. "I don't even have a home
now." |
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Answers |
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The girl wrote that
she would be going home on the next boat. |
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He boasted that he
had lived many days underground and had survived. |
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I told him that I
would submit those forms the next day. |
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The teacher promised
to tell them a story if they finished their work early. |
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She said that she
won't forgive him unless he apologizes. |
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Her brother said that
she would say she doesn't care if he told her. |
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He says that there is
a civil war on the island now and that the natives are running
wild. |
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Marshal told Margaret
that he would lend her his notes if she would let him have her
book. |
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My father said that
when he was a boy, he used to play 'Red Indians' and not
'Astronauts'. |
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He said that it had
rained very heavily the previous night and that he had got wet. |
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He said urgently that
they had to go then and could not delay even a minute longer. |
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She informed me that
she knew the place well and that she would show me around. |
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The overseer told the
laborers that they had to finish harvesting the crops by the
following week. |
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The old man said that
the incident had happened years ago when the first settlers had
gone there. |
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The teacher told us
that the sun is about one hundred and forty-nine million
kilometers from the earth. |
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I told Betty that she
should not believe everything that Susan tells her. |
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The teacher said that
a documentary film was going to be shown in the hall and that
they had to go to the hall then. |
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His friends consoled
him and said that no one was to blame for the accident. |
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Lucy said that they
ought to go there more often because they know so many people
there. |
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The old woman moaned
that she had lost everything and that she did not even have a
home then. |
