Choose the correct options

There can be more than one correct answer.

Direct speech is

• what another person said
• the exact words someone said
• all words in the past

Reported speech represents

• what another person said
• what a person is saying
• what a person is going to say

We use quotation marks in

• reported speech only
• direct speech only
• both reported and direct speech

In reported speech we change

• tenses
• pronouns
• time expressions

In reported speech we

• change the tense to Past Simple
• never change the tense
• change the tense by moving it one tense back

Reported Speech can be introduced by

• the verbs say, tell
• modal verbs
• introductory verbs like offer, promise, order, apologise, prefer, explain, etc.

Which sentences are correct?

• He said me he was OK.
• He said to me he was OK.
• He told me he was OK.