KEY WORD TRANSFORMATIONS REPORTED SPEECH and other structures

Ready for First Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using
the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between two and five words, including the
word given.

1. ‘I wouldn’t go to that restaurant if I were you, Matt’ I said.

ADVISED

2. I’m amazed by how much English he knows.

OF

3. ‘Can you swim, Sarah?’ asked her teacher.

HOW

4. ‘I’ll drive Dawn to the station’, he said.

OFFERED

5. ‘There’ll be very few people at the party’, she told Roger.

NOT

6. We could not choose where we sat in the classroom.

HAD

7. Although the bus arrived late, we managed to get there on time.

DESPITE

8. ‘Don’t swim too far out, please! she begged him.

BEGGED

9. ‘Did you buy a bandage, Tom?’ asked Graham.

HAD
10. ‘Would you like to go with me to the seaside? he said.
INVITED

11.‘Will I ever understand my parents?’ he asked himself.

IF

12.She said she was very sorry she hadn’t come to the meeting.
APOLOGISED

13.‘How long has Martin had his electric car?, he wanted to know.
WONDERED

14.‘Me?, No, I didn’t take Clare’s tablet’, said Sophia.

DENIED

15.‘Don’t touch the switch with wet hands’, the electrician told me
WARNED

16.‘There is going to be a snowstorm tomorrow’, Paul said to me.

TOLD

17.‘We are living in Manchester for a few months’, she told me.
WERE

18.‘Let’s go to the theatre tonight, shall we?’ Tina said.

THAT

19.‘David, please, don’t drink so much’, she said.

ASKED

20.‘Would you like a ride home?’ he told them.

 GIVE

21.‘Have you ever met Paul?’ they said.

WHETHER

22. ‘Can I borrow your bike Mike?’ he asked him.

INQUIRED

23. ‘Would you close the window now, please?’ the teacher asked.
TO

24. ‘Change your pajamas and wash your face.’ she said to her son.
ORDERED

25. ‘We’ll call the police if you don’t stop that noise!’ said their neighbor.
THREATENED
 Answers:
1) I advised him (Matt) not to go to that restaurant.
2) His knowledge amazes me.
3) Sarah’s teacher asked her if she knew how to swim
4) He offered to give Dawn the station.
5) She told Roger there would not be many people at the party.
6) We had no choice about where we sat in the classroom.
7) We managed to get there on time, despite the delay of the bus.
8) She begged him not to swim too far out.
9) Graham asked Tom if he had bought a bandage.
10) He invited me to go to the seaside with him.
11) He asked himself if he would ever understand his parents.
12) She apologized for not coming to the meeting.
13) He wondered how long Martin had had his electric car.
14) Sophia denied taking Clare’s tablet.
15) The electrician warned me not to touch the switch with wet hands.
16) Paul told me there was going to be a snowstorm the next day.
17) She said they were living in Manchester for a few months.
18) Tina suggested to me that we should go to the theater that (Going to the theatre that)
night.
19) She asked David not to drink so much.
20) He offered to ride them (to give them a ride) home.
21) They wanted to know whether I had ever met Paul.
22) He inquired to borrow (if he could borrow) Mike’s bike.
23) The teacher asked the students to close the window at that moment.
24) She ordered her son to change his pajamas and wash his face.
25) Their neighbor threatened to call the police if they didn’t stop that noise.