Reported speech worksheets

PDF exercises for intermediate and advanced students of English to download for free.

Changes of tenses:

Direct to reported speech 1

Key with answers 1

• Complete sentences:
  "It is too late." - I said ___.

Direct to reported speech 2

Key with answers 2

• Choose correct answers:
  "Sam may contact you." - He said Sam ___. (may contact me, might contact me)

Reported to direct speech 3

Key with answers 3

• Change the reported speech into the direct speech:
  She said she lived in York. - "___ in York," she said.

Changes of tenses + place + time etc.:

Changes of time in reported speech 4

Key with answers 4

• Choose correct answers. On Monday:
  "We will set off tomorrow." - A week later: They said they would set off ___. (tomorrow, the next day)

Changes of time, place... 5

Key with answers 5

• Correct mistakes in the reported speech:
  "I will leave tomorrow," she said yesterday. - Yesterday she said she would leave tomorrow.

Reported to direct speech (all changes) 6

Key with answers 6

• Change the reported speech into the direct speech:
  Tim said he had worked with them the previous month. - "___," said Tim.

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