REPORTED SPEECH 9

REPORTED SPEECH 9

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!

Task

If the introductory sentence is in Simple Past, there is backshift of tenses. The time phrases are also changed.

today →
yesterday →
tomorrow →
a week ago →
last weekend →
next week →
these days →
last week →
now →
this morning →

HERE YOU HAVE THE CORRECT ANSWERS
today → that day
yesterday → the day before
tomorrow → the next day
a week ago → a week before
last weekend → the weekend before
next week → the following week
these days → those days
last week → the week before
now → then
this morning → that morning