Essential English Exercises: Reported Speech and Phrasal Verbs

Literary Fiction and Human Complexity

Reading Comprehension Answers

1. To commit a crime.
2. Who are consistent and predictable.
3. That people are complex beings that often defy expectations.

4. Literary Fiction's Impact

   Readers of literary fiction develop an awareness that people are complex beings that often defy expectations. Readers become emotionally involved with the characters.

5. Vocabulary in Context

   1. take into account
   2. infer
   3. reinforces
   4. defy
   5. fight

Vocabulary Exercises: Phrasal Verbs and Definitions

Exercise 1: Phrasal Verb Matching

1. turn up
2. brought up
3. take out
4. back up (support)
5. go on
6. give away
7. put down
8. back up (copy/reverse)

Exercise 2: Contextual Meanings

1. trust him
2. have space
3. we gave up our search
4. be careful
5. was caught in the end
6. of value

Exercise 3: Crime and Justice Terminology

1. guilty
2. raised
3. trial
4. forced
5. turn in
6. released
7. went on

Vocabulary Application and Usage

Exercise 1: Sentence Correction and Completion

1. Please turn up the volume.
2. Hold onto your bag.
3. They don't have an idea where they went.
4. It hurts my shoulder.
5. That’s why it was easy to steal.
6. He left his keys inside.

Exercise 2: Phrasal Verb Context

1. might not turn up
2. gave the suspect away
3. bring up the burglary
4. back me up
5. must go on
6. giving everything away

Exercise 3: Terminology Review

1. grab
2. appointment
3. scar
4. released
5. fine
6. reassure
7. guilty

Grammar Practice: Reported Speech

Exercise 1: Reporting Verbs

1. warned me not to approach the suspect
2. ordered me to lock the door then
3. admitted putting the jeans in his bag
4. complained that there had been too many burglaries in their neighbourhood
5. wondered where I had been the previous night
6. asked Tom not to say anything to Mum

Exercise 2: Tense Changes in Reported Speech

1. had broken into
2. to admit
3. would be wearing
4. had remembered

Exercise 3: Indirect Commands and Questions

1. not to say anything
2. to say the things he had been doing
3. if it was safe to go back home
4. not to walk at night in that neighbourhood
5. she had lied
6. going home

Advanced Reported Speech and Verb Forms

Exercise 1: Reporting Complex Statements

1. complained that she couldn’t do that then unless everyone helped her
2. asked how much money they had got away with
3. warned us not to walk there alone at night
4. claimed that he had been at home all evening with his wife
5. refused to give out any details
6. reminded me not to forget about my appointment the following morning

Exercise 2: Indirect Statements and Questions

1. to call us soon
2. where I had been the day before
3. that there had been a lot of traffic
4. that the criminals would serve two years in prison
5. that he hadn’t been there at the time
6. that he had stolen the jewels

Exercise 3: Mixed Verb Forms and Tenses

1. had waved
2. hadn’t suspected
3. were dealing
4. would have
5. putting
6. had been reported
7. to become