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ESL Reported Speech Corrections

This document provides an exercise to test understanding of reported speech as it relates to time, place and pronouns. The exercise consists of 10 sentences where reported speech has been used incorrectly, and the reader is asked to identify the mistake in each sentence. A key is then provided with the correct answers. The goal of the exercise is to practice accurately changing direct speech to reported speech when contextual details like tense, place and pronouns differ from the original statement.

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ESL Reported Speech Corrections

This document provides an exercise to test understanding of reported speech as it relates to time, place and pronouns. The exercise consists of 10 sentences where reported speech has been used incorrectly, and the reader is asked to identify the mistake in each sentence. A key is then provided with the correct answers. The goal of the exercise is to practice accurately changing direct speech to reported speech when contextual details like tense, place and pronouns differ from the original statement.

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Reported speech: time, place and pronouns

https://www.e-grammar.org/reported-speech-exercises-pdf/

Exercise 5
There is always one mistake in the reported speech. Correct it.

Example:
"I have been with Jill since yesterday," said Joe on Friday morning.
On Friday morning Joe said he had been with Jill since yesterday. the day before

"We arrived last week," said Sarah when I met her in Paris.
When I met Sarah in Paris she said she had arrived last week. ____________________

"I will contact Tim the day after tomorrow," Sue told me on Sunday.
Sue told me on Sunday she would contact Tim the day after tomorrow. ____________________

"Mary used to be here nearly every day," Jim told me in the gym.
Jim told me in the gym Mary used to be here nearly every day. ____________________

"I'll take this blouse. How much is it?" said Linda in the shop.
Linda said she would take this blouse and she asked how much it was. ____________________

"I will leave tomorrow," Julie announced yesterday.


Julie announced yesterday that she would leave tomorrow. ____________________

"I'm going to do it tomorrow," Brad told me today.


Brad told me today that he would do it the following day. ____________________

"You'll write a test next month," the teacher warned us in May.


The teacher warned us in May that we would write a test next month. ____________________

"Bill graduated a year ago," said Sam when I met him at Christmas.
When I met Sam at Christmas he said Bill had graduated a year ago. ____________________

Yesterday I met Liz outside Carl's house and she said:


"He moved in this house last year."
Yesterday I met Liz outside Carl's house and she said that he had moved
in this house last year. ____________________

When Greg saw the hotel we stayed in during our holiday in 2017
he claimed: "I stayed here last year."
When Greg saw the hotel we stayed in during our holiday in 2017
he claimed that he had stayed there last year. ____________________

ESL worksheets on e-grammar.org


Reported speech: time, place and pronouns
https://www.e-grammar.org/reported-speech-exercises-pdf/

Key with answers


Exercise 5

When I met Sarah in Paris she said she had arrived last week. the previous week

Sue told me on Sunday she would contact Tim the day after tomorrow. in two days' time

Jim told me in the gym Mary used to be here nearly every day. there

Linda said she would take this blouse and she asked how much it was. that

Julie announced yesterday that she would leave tomorrow. the next | following day

Brad told me today that he would do it the following day. tomorrow

The teacher warned us in May that we would write a test next month. the following month

When I met Sam at Christmas he said Bill had graduated a year ago. year before

Yesterday I met Liz outside Carl's house and she said that he had moved
in this house last year. that

When Greg saw the hotel we stayed in during our holiday in 2017
he claimed that he had stayed there last year. the previous year

ESL worksheets on e-grammar.org

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