Sentences are given in direct speech. Change them into indirect speech.

1. He said, ‘I am going to work.’

2. I said to the postman, ‘Have you got any letters for me?’

3. Mother said, ‘I am having my breakfast.’

4. The child said, ‘I can’t find my socks.’

5. The man said, ‘I would like a sandwich.’

6. He said, ‘I have sent the report.’

7. ‘I know what you want,’ mother said.

8. ‘I am working on a new project,’ she said.

9. ‘I was doing homework in the evening,’ the boy said.

10. ‘I am going to start working on a new project,’ the girl said.

11. She said, ‘I will come tomorrow.’

12. The officer said, ‘You have to finish this job by evening.’

Answers

1. He said that he was going to work.

2. I asked the postman if /whether he had got any letters for me.

3. Mother said that she was having her breakfast.

4. The child said that he couldn’t find his socks.

5. The man said that he would like a sandwich.

6. He said that he had sent the report.

7. Mother said that she knew what I wanted.

8. She said that she was working on a new project.

9. The said that he had been doing homework in the evening.

10. The girl said that she was going to start working on a new project.

11. She said that she would come the following day.

12. The officer said that I had to finish that job by evening.