Question

[Đan Thanh Lê]

Rewrite these sentences in reported speech. Decide whether to change the tenses and adverbs of time and place.

1.    'I've decided to stay another week as the research is going so well here.'
Professor Jones rang from Vancouver. He said …………………………….

2.    'We've got tickets for the opera in New York this weekend.'

Gerry and Louisa told me last week that …………………………………..

3.    The smaller islands of the archipelago are mostly uninhabited and very peaceful.'

There are so many people here! But that TV programme a few weeks ago said…………………………………………………………………………..

4.    'Mum's really ill. I wish we didn't live so far away from her.'

Sharon was really depressed last night. She told me that ………………......

5.    'The house is in a very pleasant cul-de-sac, and there aren't many children or animals there.' Here's the road. Oh no - it's awful! But the estate agent insisted that…………………………………………………………………

6.    'The accused first met the Wilsons when he decorated their living room.'

In court, the lawyer claimed that          

7.    ‘Shall we switch to an online banking system for the household accounts?’

My husband suggested that………………………………………………….

8.    'They had been living together secretly for years before they revealed their relationship.'

The newsreader said that the two politicians…………………………….

9.    'You mustn't leave your car in these parking bays for more than twenty minutes at a time.'

The traffic warden explained ……………………………………………..          

10. 'Oh really! There is no such thing as reincarnation!'

The scientist maintained that ……………………………………………….