Reported Speech Test B1 Grammar Exercises

1. Kirsten said that..........would lend ..... her car if I needed it.

2. Scientists still have no answer to ..... there is life on other planets.

3. It ..... obvious that we ..... a big problem with our old car one day.

4.She ............to us .......there was nothing to worry about, but actually there was so much.

5. I asked Lorena what Mike ..... about when I went into his room, but she told me that she ..... no idea.

6. I know the film starts at 9 pm, but I am not sure ..... it is today or tomorrow.

7.Keith:Shall we throw a party for Jane next Saturday ? Bill told Lara that Keith.......for Jane the following Saturday.

8.The police wanted to know ..... had murdered the businessman and ......

9. No one ..... me ..... we were going to pay such a lot of extra money for the package tour.

10. We knew that it was true, but Russell ..... that he ..... from the company.

11. Alice told me that no one at the customs had ..... her ..... she had anything to declare, and that she found it quite strange

12. Martha ..... to break up with him if Jack didn't stop smoking.

13. Miriam ..... me that she ..... how to dance the waltz from her grandmother.

14.Jason finally..........to copying the homework from the Inernet.

15. Could you ..... her ..... the reports with her when she comes to the meeting?

16. Ahmet ..... when he will be able to get rid of the plaster on his leg.

17. I am busy today and might forget it.Can you please.......me to do the shoping before I come home ?

18. I asked..........he said to her, but she ..... to talk to me.

19. That tooth of yours looks awful. I ..... making an appointment at the dentist's as soon as possible.

20. His parents ..... Luke ·of getting into a fight with his younger brother, but he ..... having done anything to hi~.