Direct and indirect (reported) speech exercises – test 1, exercise 3

Rewrite the sentences in direct speech.

Example:She said Liz didn't speak Greek. - Liz doesn't speak Greek.

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He admitted that he had never met us. -
They told us they would start the following day. -
We called them that we were walking in the park. -
She said she worked for Ford. -
I replied that I had been trying to mend it since the morning. -
He said that at one o'clock he had been doing nothing. -
They explained that they had closed down the previous year. -
Neil said he wished he could be independent. -
She told us we had better accept it. -
He claimed that while he was sleeping someone screamed in the garden. -
Moira admitted that she would rather stay. -

Do more reported speech exercises to practise how to change the direct into indirect speech. See also English grammar tenses for other English exercises and rules.

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