WORKSHEET ON REPORTED SPEECH

1) Marisa: I want to meet all my cousins and friends in Dubai.

Marisa said that she ________________________________________ in Dubai.
a) Wants to meet all her friends and cousins
b) Had wanted to meet all her friends and cousins
c) Wanted to meet all her friends and cousins

2) Jacob to Myra: I have bought tickets for tomorrow’s cricket match.

Jacob told Myra that he ________________________________________________
________________________
A. Complete the given sentences in the reported speech with the correct responses.
a) for yesterday’s cricket match
b) had bought tickets for the next day’s cricket match
c) had bought tickets for the cricket match the next day

3) Mayank: He drove all the way to the mansion yesterday.

Mayank said that ___________________________________________________________
a) He drove all the way to the mansion the following day
b) He had driven all that way to the mansion the previous day.
c) He had driven all the way to the mansion the day before.

4) The twins to their guardian: Will you be coming to pick us up from school today?
The twins ____________ their guardian _________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
a) If he would be coming to pick them up from school today
b) Whether he would be coming to pick them up from school that day or not
c) If he would come and pick them up from school that day

B. Read the conversation between James and Ginger and complete the paragraph that
follows using reported speech.
James: Ginger, who will you like to be if you can be somebody else for a day?
Ginger: What a fantastic idea! I’d be magician Canehard.
James: And what will you do?
Ginger: I can give lots of marks to both of us on yesterday’s math test.

James asked his buddy Ginger who (a) _________________________________________

If he (b) _______________________________________________________. Ginger (c)
_____________________________________________________ and said that he (d)
___________________________________________. Quite surprised to hear that, James
(e)____________________________________________________________. With a broad
smile on his face, Ginger replied that he (f)________________________________________
_______________ to both of (g) ________________________________________________.

C. Read the given conversation and then report what was said by completing the paragraph
that follows.
Soldier: Sir, may I go out to bring my fallen comrade back?
Major: Do you think it’s worth it? Your friend is probably dead and you may throw your life
away.
Soldier: Do let me go, sir.
Major: Alright, if you insist so much but remember you are doing it at your own risk.
Soldier: Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.
(Sometime later… The soldier returns to the trench with his comrade on his shoulders)
Major: I knew it wouldn’t be worth it. Your friend is dead and you yourself have been
mortally wounded.
Soldier: It’s totally worth it, Sir.
Major: What do you mean?
Soldier: When I got to Jim, he was still alive and he said, “I knew my friend would surely
come to save me.”

The company was caught in a trench with continuous gunfire whizzing overhead. A soldier
saw one of his comrades trapped in crossfire in the No Man’s Land. He immediately asked
his major (a) ____________________________________________________________
back. The major asked him (b) ________________________________________________.
He tried to dissuade the soldier from taking the suicidal step by saying (c)
________________________________________________________________. The soldier
entreated the major (d) _____________________________. The major unwillingly
permitted the soldier to go ahead but warned him (e) _____________________________
_______________________________ own risk. The soldier thanked the major and went out
to retrieve his wounded comrade.
After sometime, he returned with his friend on his shoulder. He was himself very badly
wounded. The major looked at him in bewilderment and remarked that (f) _____________
_________________________ because his friend (g) _______________________________
_____________________________________________________ mortally wounded. With a
touch of pride in his voice, the wounded soldier replied (h) __________________________
___________ it. Unable to make out anything, the major asked the (i) _________________
________________________________. In a tone both sad and proud, the soldier replied
that (j) _________________________________________________________________
and before dying he said that (k) ____________________________________________
__________________________________________ him.

D. Read the given conversations and fill in the blanks to complete the paragraphs that
follow each of them in reported speech.

1) Ken: I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto.

Jose: Oh, I’m sorry to hear it.
Ken: Why do you say that? I love my hometown.
Jose: Oh, I must have misunderstood. In Spanish the word “suburbio” refers to a
very poor area.

Ken remarked to Jose (a) _______________________________________suburbs of

Toronto and Jose told him (b) ___________________________________ that. Ken asked
Jose (c) _____________________________ that, and then he remarked (d)
___________________________________________hometown. Jose told Ken that he (e)
______________________________________ and explained to him that (f)
_________________________________________________________________ area.

2) Klaus: Look, there’s Ryan. Wink at him so he sees us.

Sarah: That won’t work because he’s too far away to notice.
Klaus: No he isn’t. Watch.
Sarah: Oh, you must mean wave, not wink. Does the word “wink” mean “wave” in
German?

Klaus pointed Ryan out to Sarah and told (a) __________________________________

_________________________ them. Sarah responded that (b) ___________________
____________________________________the wink. Klaus (c) ___________________
with her and told (d)___________________________. Then Sarah understood that Klaus
had (e) _________________________________________ “wink”. Sarah asked Klaus
(f) ______________________________________________________________ in German.