CÂU TƯỜNG THUẬT (REPORTED SPEECH)

I.

1. Jane told Tom (that) he played very well.
2. Sue said (that) she left/ had left school a year before.
3. Charlie told Helen (that) he hadn't seen Diana recently.
4. Rachel told us (that) we could come and stay at her flat if we were in London.
5. John said (that) he had been reading the/ that book all the previous day.
6. Matthew said (that) his car was stolen/ had been stolen the week before.
7. Judy said she wanted to go on holiday but she couldn't afford it.
8. Emma said (that) she had only had the new computer since the previous day.
9. Sarah told me (that) she was going away for a few days and she would phone me when she got back.
10. Mark told Sandra (that) they must/ had to finish that report.
11. Nick said (that) he saw/ had seen Helen at a party the night before and she seemed/ had seemed unwell.
12. Claire said (that) she might go to Bali again.
13. Susan said (that) it was the funniest show she had ever seen.
14. Tom told Susan (that) he woke/ had woken up feeling ill, so he didn't go/ hadn't gone to work.
15. Judy said (that) she worked for a small publish company, and she was their marketing manager.
16. Mark said (that) Ann might ring that day.
17. Sandra said (that) they had to stay home because it had been raining all evening.
18. Bill told Joanna (that) when he saw/ had seen Sarah she was playing/ had been playing tennis.
19. Nick said (that) he knew the place well because he used to live here/ there.
20. Susan said (that) when she first came here, she had/ had had a hard time with the language.
21. The teacher told Jim (that) he mustn't make that mistake again.
22. Nicky said (that) she didn't know where Bill was living at that moment.
23. Erica said (that) her father read/ had read the stories to her when she was a child.
24. My mother told me (that) if I ate too much, I'd feel ill.
25. Heinrich told journalists for many years he had worked as a merchant in the USA and Russia.
26. The lawyer said (that) if the police had noticed Jack's car, they would have arrested him.
27. Carol said (that) she would have finished the report by the next day.
28. Elaine said (that) she wasn't going to worry about the money until she heard from the bank.
29. Emma said (that) she hadn't travelled by underground before she came to London.
30. They told Maria (that) they would be writing to her later that week.
31. The Science teacher told the class (that) ice floats/ floated on water.
32. Martha said (that) if she tidied her room, her dad would be happy.
33. Margo said (that) he wished he had enough money to travel to New York.
34. The Greeks said (that) they had been fighting there for nine years and they want to get back to their families.

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