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

Choose the correct ending.

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"I got the message while I was waiting at the bus stop."
He told me that .
"We will set off tomorrow."
They said .
"Get out of my way!"
He ordered us .
"I invited him last week."
She told me this week that .
"I will resign today."
This morning he announced that he .
"She'd better refuse this job."
He insisted that .
"We used to take the same medicine."
She thought that .
"I entered the university a year ago."
He told me last year .
"It is time we had an agreement."
She suggested that .
"We must go skiing in winter."
He said that .

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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