STATEMENTS
QUESTIONS
FROM REPORTED TO DIRECT
100

He said: "I will be here early tomorrow"

He said that he would be there early the following day.

100

"Who owns this dictionary?", asked the teacher.

The teacher asked who owned that/the dictionary.

100

THey asked me if I wanted to see the cathedral.

"Do you want to see the cathedral?", they asked me.

200

He said to us: "I would like to thank you all for the present that you sent me"

He said to us (he told us) that he would like to thank us all for the present that we had sent him.

200

"Are you going to let me in or aren't you?" she said.

She asked whether I was going to let her in or not.

200

I told them I had finished my school project the day before and had nothing to do at that moment.

"I finished my school project yesterday and now I have nothing to do", I said.

300

I said: "Mary, I came here to meet your parents, not to see your friends"

I told Mary that I had gone there to meet her parents and not to see her friends.

300

"Did you see what I saw, Joe?" he said.

He asked Joe if he had seen what he had seen. / He asked Joe whether he had seen the same as him.

300

The policeman asked my father to show him his driving licence and my father asked if there was anything wrong.

"Show me your drining licence, please, sir"/ Can you show...., sir?" / Will you...." asked the policeman to my father.

"Is there anything wrong, officer?" asked my father.

400

"This mirror is there so that you can see yourself when you are dancing, students", said the instructor.

The instructor said to the pupils /told the pupils that the/that mirror was there so that they could see themselves when they were dancing.

400

"Are you being attended, sir?", asked the waiter.

The waiter asked him/ a client/ the customer if/whether he was being attended.

400

The head of studies asked my classmates who had broken the computer and Álvaro, the delegate, answered that they didn't have a clue and that it was like that when they had arrived early that morning.

"Who has broken the computer?" asked the head of studies to my classmates.

"We don't have a clue", answered Álvaro, the delegate. "It  was like that when we arrived early this morning"


500

She said : "I'll come with you as soon as I am ready, and right now I am not ready"

She said that she would come with us/him/them... as soon as she was ready and that she still wasn't ready/ that she wasn't ready yet.

500

"I've just received my son's school report. Would you like to see it?" she said."No", I answered.

She said that she had just received her son's school report and asked me if I would like to see it/ wanted to see it. 

I answered/ replied that I wouldn't/ didn't.

500

He wanted to know his Math exam result but the teacher apologized and said that she had not finished checking them yet.

"Can I know my Math exam result?" he asked.

"I'm sorry but I haven't finished checking them yet", answered the teacher.