Reported speech exercises: multiple choice quiz (mcq)

Reported speech mcq - exercise 4

Choose the correct endings in the multiple choice test on reported speech (special cases).

"I am reading an interesting book," he told me.

He told me that ___ an interesting book.
(he's been reading, he was reading)

"I am waiting at the bus stop number ten," he told me.

He told me that at the bus stop number ten.

"We will set off tomorrow," they said on Friday.

On Friday they said .

"Get out of my way!" he ordered us.

He ordered us of his way.

"I invited Derek to dinner last week," Debbie told me this week.

Debbie told me this week that she had invited Derek to dinner .

"I will resign today," the minister announced this morning.

This morning the minister announced that he would resign .

"She'd better refuse this job," insisted my father.

My father insisted that she that job.

"We used to take the same medicine," she thought.

She thought that the same medicine.

"It is time we had an agreement," the vice president suggested.

The vice president suggested that it was time we an agreement.

"We must go skiing to the Alps in winter," he said.

He said that they skiing to the Alps in winter.

"I wouldn't go to South America if I were you," Betty claimed.

Betty claimed she wouldn't go to South America if she me.

"I caught a cold while I was waiting at the bus stop," Daniel told us.

Daniel told us that he caught a cold while he at the bus stop.

"He has fallen in love with Julie," Sam told me about William.

Sam told me that in love with Julie.

Reported speech multiple choice exercises and gap-filling + grammar rules.

For intermediate and advanced learners of English.