REPORTED SPEECH

PAST TENSES

PAY ATTENTION TO THE FOLLOWINGS:

1. I, we, you, us, my, your, our.

2. Tobe, verbs (predicates)
3. Examples:
Jane: l need your help
Jane said to him that she needed his help
4. Must be in the form of affirmative statements.
Ani asked Anisa : who was the person?
Ani asked anisa who the person had been.
5. Changes in the tenses:
- Present tenses - past tenses
- Past tense -- past perfect

EXERCISES:

A. PRESENT TENSES -- PAST TENSES

Change the following direct speech into reported speech.

1. The students wonder : is it possible to get it done within two hours?

2. The counselor said to the students: you are required to collect more authentic data.
3. ‘everybody is expected to attend the seminar’ the director said.
4. The man asked the woman: what do you think of professor Roger?
5. The woman said: ‘well, his lectures are interesting enough, but I think he should choose
more appropriate questions for the test.
6. The woman asked: are you going to come with us?
7. The man said: I am not sure, my parents will come over sometime this afternoon.
8. The man asked: have you seen Marry? I ‘ve been looking for her anywhere.
9. The woman replied : she’s out for lunch at the moment. She’ll be back in 30 minutes l m
sure.
10. The woman asked: how much do l owe you?

Complete the reported speech below with appropriate predicates. USE SIMPLE PAST TENSE

Example: the attendant asked the passenger ......

The attendant asked the passanger if there was something she could do to help him

Do as the example:

1. Everyone asked me why .........

2. When l was in senior high school, sometimes I wondered when .........
3. My academic counselor asked me how long.....
4. the computer technician said that..
5. The nurse asked the kin how......
6. Our nurse guide said to the students that..
 7. The travelling agent asked the caller how long...
8. The students are chosen the candidates and are going to be sent overseas. The director
asked them if........
9. two students went downstairs to pick up the lecturer. They asked the receptionist if....
10. regarding the rummors, she said that......

B. PAST TENSE  PAST PERFECT

Study the examples below

1. jane said : “ I saw Jim the other day”

Jane said that she had seen Jim the other day
2. She asked: “ Did you have a good time, Bob?”
She asked Bob if he had had a good time.
3. She asked : “ How did you spend your holiday, guys?
She asked them how they had spent their holiday.
4. I asked him :” were you here then?”
I asked him if he had been here then

Ani said : I went to Alfa Mart earlier this morning

Ani said that she had gone to Alfa Mart earlier this morning

Change the following direct sentences into reported speech

1. The lecturer said : “Everybody was expected to submit the report by Monday”
2. The student said :” We did not find anything gone wrong with the patient.”
3. The nurse guide asked : “ Did you notice any blood in the vomit?”
4. The student said:” We wrote down everything we noticed.”
5. The doctor asked :”How long did the fever last?”
6. The nurse asked the patient :” Did you have a good sleep?”
7. The patient asked :”Did the outcounter medicine l took caused my illness to get worse?”
8. The nurse said :”the pills only killed the pain temporarily.”