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Exercise "Direct and indirect speech", created by lili73 (a free exercise to learn English):
Results of the 189 421 people who have taken this test:
Average mark: 45.5 / 100 Share


Latest member with a 100/100 (perfect mark): hadi54 / ALGERIA, on Thursday 20 July - 12:22:
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Stats (188714 candidates)
Question 1 passed: 76.2 %
1. Add the correct pronouns/possessive adjectives               direct speech                    indirect speechSarah: 'I'm going to the cinema with my boyfriend.' Sarah said that *

Question 2 passed: 66.6 %
was going to the cinema with *

Question 3 passed: 50.9 %
boyfriend.The neighbours: 'Can you lend us a ladder?'They asked us if *

Question 4 passed: 41.7 %
could lend *

Question 5 passed: 58.9 %
a ladder.Tom: '*

Question 6 passed: 56.6 %
parents went with *

Question 7 passed: 52.4 %
to Scotland.'Tom told me that his parents had gone with him to Scotland.Jim and Jill:' *

Question 8 passed: 31.3 %
are looking at * in the mirror.'They replied that they were looking at themselves in the mirror.

Question 9 passed: 46.9 %
2. Add the correct adverbs, tenses, demonstrative adjectives             direct speech                              indirect speechOur friends: 'We have never been here before.'Our friends told us that they had never been *

Question 10 passed: 35.8 %
*

Question 11 passed: 45.7 %
.Lara: 'I went to the swimming pool *

Question 12 passed: 31.3 %
.'Lara said that she had gone to the swimming pool the day before.John: 'I'll have finished *

Question 13 passed: 40.7 %
work by *.'John told me that he would have finished that work by the next day.

Question 14 passed: 51.8 %
3. Add the correct verbs.She said, 'I have a terrible toothache today.'She said she *

Question 15 passed: 51.1 %
a terrible toothache that day.My sister promised, 'I will come with you.'My sister promised she *

Question 16 passed: 25.2 %
come with me.He told me, 'I was reading a book when the explosion occurred.'He told me that he *

Question 17 passed: 12.8 %
a book when the explosion *

Question 18 passed: 50.5 %
.Anna said, 'You *

Question 19 passed: 15.2 %
  come and stay with me.Anna said that I could come and stay with her.Brian told me, ' I * tennis for ten years.'He told me that he had been playing tennis for ten years.


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