REPORTED SPEECH EXERCISES
1. “The rivers in my home village are very big, deep, wide and long” said Hoa.
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2. “The restaurants around here are cheap and popular to customers” he said to his uncle.
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3. “I don’t have his telephone numbers because I haven’t copy it in my address book,” said Mary.
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4. “She has been teaching us English for 5 years,” Tuan said to his new friend.
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5. “Maryam is really impressed by the beauty of Hanoi and its people’s friendliness,” said Lan
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6. “English is the language that is widely spoken all over the world,” Nga remarked
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7. “I haven’t prepared my lessons yet and I don’t know if I can pass the final exam,” Tuan said to me.
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8. “The people are Canadian, who come here to do their reach on mineral lands,” said a tourist guide.
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9. “Our earth goes around the Sun and the sun rises in the east and sets in the west,” their teacher explained.
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10. “He can share this room with you because the other rooms have been booked in advance by customers,” he said to me.
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11. “Can she speak two languages English and Spanish?” they asked me.
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12. “Can you show me the way to the post office?” a foreigner asked Hoa
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13. “Have you ever met a person like this?” she asked her brother.
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14. “Do you know how to get to the downtown area from here?” a stranger asked Ba
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15. “Should we invite your father to join our party?” she asked Peter.
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16. “Do you ever stay at home alone?” her aunt asked her.
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17. “Had he finished his homework before he went to bed last night?” he asked his wife.
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18. “Will you do it by yourself?” She asked me. “Yes. I will” I said to her.
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19. “Will you leave here the day after tomorrow?” Hoa said to her aunt.
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20. “Did you watch me perform on TV two days ago?” he said to his mother.
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21. “Does he remember what he promised with us last week?” the monitor asked her classmates.
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22. “Have they made this poster by themselves?” our form teacher asked the monitor.
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REPORTED SPEECH EXERCISES
23. “Why were they absent from class yesterday?” she said to me.
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24. “When will they answer my letter?” she asked me.
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25. “How many of you finished your math home work?” our math teacher asked us.
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26. “Whose newspapers are these?” the hotel servant asked a guest.
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27. “Which parts of the country can people grow the wet rice plant?” a foreigner asked a Vietnamese scientist.
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28. “Where can we meet to discuss our assignments tomorrow?” the monitor asked her classmates.
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29. “With whom did you go to the concert last night?” my uncle asked me
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30. “How did Ba, Nam and Hoa travel to Hanoi last summer?” I said to Mai
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1. “The rivers in my home village are very big, deep, wide and long”, said Hoa.
=> Hoa said that the rivers in her home village were very big, deep, wide and long.
2. “The restaurants around here are cheap and popular to customers”, he said to his uncle
=> He told his uncle that the restaurants around there were cheap and popular to customers
3. “I don’t have his telephone numbers because I haven’t copied it in my address book”, said Mary.
=> Mary said that she didn’t have his telephone numbers because she hadn’t copied it in her address book
4. “She has been teaching us English for 5 years”, Tuan said to his new friend.
=> Tuan told his new friend that she had been teaching them English for 5 years
5. “Maryam is really impressed by the beauty of Hanoi and its people’s friendliness”, said Lan.
=> Lan said that Maryam was really impressed by the beauty of Hanoi and its people’s friendliness
6. “English is the language that is widely spoken all over the world”, Nga remarked.
=> Nga remarked that English was the language that was widely spoken all over the world
7. “I haven’t prepared my lessons yet and I don’t know if I can pass the final exam”, Tuan said to me.
=> Tuan told me that he hadn’t prepared his lessons yet and he didn’t know if he could pass the final exam
8. “The people are Canadian, who come here to do their research on mineral lands”, said a tourist guide.
=> A tourist guide said that the people were Canadian, who came there to do their research on mineral lands