Turn from direct into reported speech or vice versa. 'I've finished the housework,' she said.

She said (that) she had finished the housework.

'Why did you do that?' he asked her.

Susie told her mother that Titanic was the best film she had ever seen.

He told them to put the rubbish in the bin.

'Please answer the telephone,' he said to her.

Alex said that they were going to Hawaii for their honeymoon.

'Are you going out on Saturday night?' Ben asked me.

Adam said that he had never ridden a horse before.

We'll go to the circus tomorrow,' said Mother.

10 Mr Carter told them to pick up the paper from the floor.

Julia begged her parents to let her go to the party.