a. Match the two parts of the sentences.
1. Delia told Joe
2. Delia said
3. Joe told Delia
a. to sit down.
b. that she’d met a man.
c. that it didn’t matter.
1-b. Delia told Joe that she’d met a man.
2-c. Delia said that it didn’t matter
3-a. Joe told Delia to sit down.
b. Look at the examptes. What happens to the verb in reported speech?
He‘s going to pay me $50 an hour,’ soid Delia.
-> Delia said he was going to pay her $50 an hour.
‘l haven’t sold any paintings,’ said Joe.
-> Joe said he hadn’t sold any paintings.
c. Rewrite the sentences using reported speech.
1. Joe said, ‘I’d be much happier if you kept up your lessons.’
Joe said that he would be much happier if Delia kept up her lessons.
2. ‘When I’ve earned some money, I’ll start again,’ Delia said.
Delia said when she’d earned some money, she’ll start again.
3. ‘I met a man from Vermont,’ Joe told Delia.
Joe told Delia he’d met a man from Vermont.
4. ‘We’ll still have the money from the man in Vermont,’ she said.
She said they’ll still have the money from the man in Vermont.
5. ‘I can’t work any more,’ Delia told Joe.
Delia told Joe she can’t work any more.
6. ‘We’ve told each other lies,’ he said.
He said they’d told each other lies.
d. Here are two reported questions from the story. Complete them, then check your answers.
1. Delia asked him where he‘d got it from.
2. He asked her what happened to her hand and if she was alright.
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