Practice
Go through the conversation again. Find all the examples you can that begin with ‘you said’ or ‘you told me’. Then say what the exact words were, at the time Miss Grey first said these things.
Summary
Remember how we use the two verbs say and tell-
“I said” is just followed by the reported information.
We add a person (‘him\her\us\John’, etc.) after ‘I told’.
Compare these two sentences:
‘He said he would be late.’
‘He told me he would be late.’
Exercise I. Change these sentences into Reported Speech.
Example: “I’m French”, she said.
You write: She said she was French.
“I like tea,” she said.
“I hate it,” he told me.
“John never wears a dark suit,” she said.
“I think that is a very good idea,” he said.
“You can’t get very far,” Baxter told him.
“I’ll buy a new suit if I get the job,” the young man said.
“You are a free man,” Baxter told Coke.
“My car has broken down,” he told the mechanic.
“I’m going to give up smoking!” he told the doctor.
“I’ve just been to the optician’s,” he told me.
Read this passage and write down exactly what they said:
When I woke up, I asked my wife what the weather was like. She looked out of the window and said it was raining very heavily, but she thought it was going to get brighter.
Later, when we were having breakfast, I listened to the weather forecast. The announcer said that the weather in the south would probably be very changeable. He added that the Meteorological Office couldn’t say when the weather would become more stable. My wife said that was fine because she had decided to stay at home and do some cooking.
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