Fill in the blanks.
1. I advised him ......................... it.
2. She asked me …………….. I had finished the job.
We report Yes/No questions with if or whether.
3. She told me ……………… careful.
We report imperatives with to-infinitives.
4. She asked me if I ………………. my lunch.
Present tenses in the direct speech change into their corresponding past tenses in the indirect speech.
5. She asked me ………………. going to the movies.
We report Yes/No questions with if or whether.
6. The dentist suggested ……………… get a new toothbrush.
Suggest cannot be followed by a to-infinitive. Instead, we use a that-clause.
7. She said that no one ……………… me.
Present tenses in the direct speech change into their corresponding past tenses in the indirect speech.
8. I requested her ………………. me.
We report orders and requests with a to-infinitive.
9. He asked me ………………. to deserve such a cruel punishment.
In reported questions the subject goes before the auxiliary verb.
10. He promised he …………… do it by the end of the week.
Will in the direct speech changes into would in the indirect speech.
11. He explained how ……………… the problem.
12. She said ……………. she hadn’t met me before.
Answers
1. I advised him not to do it.
2. She asked me if I had finished the job.
3. She told me to be careful.
4. She asked me if I had eaten my lunch.
5. She asked me if I was going to the movies.
6. The dentist suggested that I should get a new toothbrush.
7. She said that no one had called me.
8. I requested her to help me.
9. He asked me what he had done to deserve such a cruel punishment.
10. He promised he would do it by the end of the week.
11. He explained how to solve / I should solve the problem.
12. She said that she hadn’t met me before.
