Gr. 4. Reported speech and reporting verbs

This page provides theory explanations and online practice that go with units 32-39 & unit 25 from the book.

Theory

    1) General things
    2) Reported questions
    3) Say vs tell

    4) Reporting verb patterns

Online practice

Theory

 1) General things

When changing direct speech into reported speech, you will need to change the following:

                1) verb tense

                2) pronouns (personal and demonstrative pronouns)

                                I -> me

                                you -> you

                                he / she / it -> him / her / it

                                we -> us

                                they -> them

                3) time and location references

2) Reported questions

    e.g. 

        How long have you been working here?
        She asked me how long I had been working there.

3) Say vs tell

RECAP

4) Reporting verb patterns

Online practice

1) say tell error correction from esl-lounge.com

2) say tell gap fill exercise from esl-lounge.com

3) Direct to reported speech gap fill exercise from esl-lounge.com

4) Reporting verbs exercise from esl-lounge.com

5) Reported questions, extra word exercise from esl-lounge.com

6) Reported questions error correction from esl-lounge.com

7) Direct speech to reported speech from test-english.com

8) Upper intermediate exercise from speakspeak.com

9) Reported questions 1 from Perfect English Grammar

10) Reported speech mixed exercise from Perfect English Grammar

11) Reported speech mixed exercise 2 from Perfect English Grammar

12) Reported questions from englisch-hilfen.de

13) Reported commands, negative from englisch-hilfen.de

14) Backshift of tenses in reported speech from englisch-hilfen.de

15) List of reported speech activities by level of difficulty from english-grammar.at

16) List of reported speech activities from Agendaweb.com

17) List of reported speech activities from englisch-hilfen.de