Reported speech
“You can't forget your homework!”
A) My brother
B) My teacher
C) The shop assistant
A) My teacher told me that I couldn't forget my homework.
He said (that) he was tired.
A) “I am tired.”
B) “I was tired.”
C) “I have been tired.”
A) He said: “I am tired.”
She told that she is going to the cinema.
She told me that she was going to the cinema. / She said that she was going to the cinema.
“Where is your uniform?”
A) The secretary
B) The coach
C) The neighbour
B) The coach asked me where my uniform was.
Kyra's father asked Laura where the bathroom was.
A) “Do you know the bathroom?”
B) “Where was the bathroom?”
C) “Where is the bathroom?”
C) Kyra's father asked Laura: “Where is the bathroom?”
She said that she will be here at 5.
She said that she would be there at 5.
“Has Laura seen the latest email?”, asked The marketing director.
The marketing director asked [me] if Laura had seen the latest email.
She asked me why my cousin hadn’t called her earlier.
A) “Why haven’t your cousin called me?”
B) “Why don’t your cousin call me?”
C) “Why didn’t your cousin call me?”
A) She asked me: "Why haven’t your cousin called me?” / C) “Why didn’t your cousin call me?”
My mum told that I must to clean my room.
My mum told me [that] I had to clean my room.
“Did you take the money?”
A) A stranger
B) My dad
C) The police officer
C) The police officer asked me if I had taken the money.
He told them that the documents had been sent.
A) “They have sent the documents.”
B) “The documents have been sent.”
C) “They sent the documents.”
He told them: "“The documents have been sent.”
They asked to us where did we live.
They asked [us] where we lived. / They asked [us] where we had lived.
“What time will the meeting start?”
A) John's friend
B) John's college
C) John's colleague
C) John's colleague asked what time the meeting would start.
She said Tommy had to have been working all morning.
A) “Tommy has to have been working all morning.”
B) “Tommy must have been working all morning.”
C) “Tommy have to have been working all morning.”
B) She said: “Tommy must have been working all morning.”
The teacher asked to me why I am late next week.
The teacher asked me why I was going to be late the following week. / The teacher asked me why I would be late the following week.