Question

Write these sentences in reported speech changing the words where necessary-

1. “I’ll see you tomorrow”, she said.
2. “I saw her today”, he said.
3. “I met her about three months ago”, he said.
4. “We visited her this morning”, they said.
5. “We’ll see her next summer”, they said.
6. “They were here last week” ,she said.
7. He said, “It may rain tonight.”
8. He said, “I really must go.”
9. He said, “I have to go because I have an appointment in half an hour.”
10. I said, “I would like to see it.”

Answer 1

1. She said that she would see me the next day.

2. He said that he had seen her that day.

3. He said that he had met her about three months before.

4. They said they had visited her that morning.

5. They said they would visit her the following summer.

6. She said that they had been there the previous week.

7. He said that it might rain that night.

8. He said that he really had to go.

9. He said that he had to go because he had an appointment half an hour later.

10. He said that he would like to see it.

Step-by-step explanation:

We use reported speech to say something that another person said. To do so, we change the tenses and some words.

Present simple----> past simple

Present continous----> past continous

Present perfect----> past perfect

Past simple----> past perfect

Past perfect----> past perfect

Will---> would

May---> might

Tomorrow---> the next day

the next----> the following

today--->that day

Ago---> before

this---> that

last week/day/month---> the previous

must---> had to