Exercise 1
In the reported speech we usually change tenses (one tense back), pronouns, time and place.
'I admire you,' said Sarah. - Sarah said she admired me.
'We came back yesterday,' they told me. - They told me they had come the day before.
'Peter has put it here,' he thought. - He thought that Peter had put it there.
Reported speech exercises with answers and grammar rules with examples.
For intermediate and advanced learners of English as a second language.