Grammar Check A 6.

4 Reported commands and requests

Name: __________________________________________ Class: ______________

1 Rewrite the commands and requests in reported speech.

0 ‘Open your mouth.’

The doctor told me to open my mouth.

1 ‘Don’t sit down.’

The nurse told me _______________________________________.

2 ‘Stay in bed for at least four days.’

He told me _______________________________________.

3 ‘Can you do something for me, please?’

She asked me _______________________________________.

4 ‘Please don’t move for a minute.’

The doctor asked me _______________________________________

5 ‘Put your hands in the air.’

She told us _______________________________________.

6 ‘Please wait for the doctor.’

She asked us _______________________________________.

7 ‘Don’t eat anything for six hours.’

He told me _______________________________________.
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2 Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

When Peter went to hospital the nurse 0asked (ask) him 1 _______________ (tell) her what had happened.

He told her that he had fallen off his bike. She 2 _______________ (tell) him 3 _______________

(not/move) until she had examined him. Then the doctor came and 4 _______________ (ask) him

5 _______________ (explain) why he hadn’t been wearing his bike helmet while he had been cycling.

Peter’s parents always 6 _______________ (tell) him 7 _______________ (not/ride) his bike without wearing

his helmet, but he had forgotten it that day. Then the doctor asked him 8 _______________ (move) his legs.

Luckily he hadn’t injured himself too badly.

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Total: ______ / 15

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