English Grammar Mastery: Reported Speech and Passive Voice

Reported Speech Examples

• He said that Jenny would be doing some temporary work in a hospital the following summer.
• He asked me what I had done with his iPad.
• The secretary told me to sign that form.
• The headmaster wanted to know why I wanted to come to that university.

Passive Voice Practice

• The teacher was asked by the students to explain the exercise to them again.
• My sister and I were told by our dad to clean up our room.
• 10,000 were given to the charity anonymously.
• A box of organic vegetables is delivered to us every week.

Conditional Sentence Exercises

• If you had asked me, I would have lent you the money.
• They are in traffic...
• If I hadn’t been full, we would have stayed at that hotel.
• If I had found my mobile, I would have phoned you.
• If you don’t stop making noise, I will call the police.

Additional Reported Speech Examples

• He said that John would be working in his father’s hospital the following winter.
• He asked where I had found his iPhone.
• The secretary told me to wait a minute.
• The headmaster asked why I found that college interesting.

Additional Passive Voice Practice

• Their parents were asked by their children why they couldn’t go out.
• My brother and I were told by our father to help him clean the attic.
• A job in Australia has been offered to me.
• Are the hotel rooms cleaned every day?

Additional Conditional Exercises

• If you had needed it, I would have lent you the money.
• If they hadn’t missed the bus, they wouldn’t have been late for school.

Future Tenses: Will, Going To, and Present Continuous

• I am going to meet my friends outside...
• Look at the time, we are going to be late.
• I will see you when I get back...
• We will win our next game...
• We should get to the club early or we aren’t going to get in.

Past Simple vs. Present Perfect

• Olivia sang with a band when she...
• We have gone to the USA...
• I finished the book the same day..
• Look at the time! Where have you been?
• We haven’t seen a good film...

Reported Speech Tense Conversion Rules

1. Present Simple (Past Simple)
2. Present Continuous (Past Continuous)
3. Present Perfect (Past Perfect)
4. Past Simple (Past Perfect)
5. Past Continuous (Past Perfect Continuous)
6. Be going to (Was/Were going to)
7. Will (Would)
8. Would (Would)
9. Can (Could)
10. Could (Could)
11. May (Might)
12. Might (Might)
13. Must (Had to)
14. Mustn’t (Mustn’t)
15. Should/Ought to (Should/Ought to)

Time and Place Shifts in Reported Speech

1. Now (Then)
2. Today (That day)
3. Tonight (That night)
4. Yesterday (The previous day)
5. Tomorrow (The next day)
6. Next week (The following week)
7. Last week (The previous week)
8. A week ago (The week before)
9. This (That)
10. These (Those)
11. Here (There)