Reported Speech Review1

Answers: 1)

1. They asked him if he could recreate the sound of a head being chopped off.

2. He said that the outside was fibrous so it cut like skin.

3. He explained that a Foley artist could be playing like a big brute one minute and a cute little girl the next.

4. He told me that for the floating books of Harry Potter, he had gone to Charing Cross Road in London to buy a lot of antique books.

5. He claimed that there was a fox you / I heard in just about every film...even though it was a fox from the UK.

2) 1. He told me that he had seen the film the previous week/ the week before and that it had been excellent.

2. His mother said that Roberto was watching a film at that moment and couldn't come to the phone.

3. They told us that they wouldn't be able to come with me / us the following day.

4. She said that she hadn't been going to call me that morning but that she really needed my help.

5. They told me that they hadn't seen the film yet, but that they were going the following week.

6. She said that the special effects were better than she had expected.

3) 1. I asked her what she had done the day before / the previous day.

2. Greg asked if I had seen Helena at the party the previous night / the night before.

3. Íñigo wanted to know where they could go on holiday the following summer.

4. She asked how old my mother was.

5. Vicki wanted to know if I was coming to school the following week.

6. Lula asked if they should meet there the following day.