Reported Speech
Reported questions
(To report commands, request, suggestions we use a reporting verbs (order, ask, tell, advise, offer, warn, beg, suggest) followed by to – infinitive or not to – infinitive.)
Ex. 3. Report the police-officer’s questions to the shop owner.
1. What’s your name? ____________________________________________________________________
2. Did you see the robbers? ________________________________________________________________
3. What were they wearing? _______________________________________________________________
4. How do you think they got in? _____________________________________________________________
5. What did they take? ___________________________________________________________________
6. Has this ever happened before? __________________________________________________________

Ex. 4. Turn from direct speech into reported speech.
1. “I’ve finished all my work,” she said. ________________________________________________________
2. “Why are you looking at me like that? She asked him. __________________________________________
3. “Don’t play with matches, “ his mother said. _________________________________________________
4. “I’ve forgotten to bring my lunch with me,” he said. ____________________________________________
5. “Will you be home soon?” she asked her husband. ____________________________________________
6. “Go to bed!” Father said to the children. ____________________________________________________
7. “I’ll clean the car tomorrow,” Tim said to his father. ____________________________________________
8. “Where have you been?” Gary asked his wife. __________________________________________________
9. “I’ve been working for the same company since 1960,” he said to me. _______________________________
“Do you know Garfield?” she asked me. _____________________________________________________