🗣️Voice Transformation Challenge – Reported Speech
🎯B2 Level ESL Exercise – Jumbled Sentences
💡Instruction: Reorder the words to form a correct sentence in Reported Speech. Pay attention to time, pronouns, and tense changes.
💭Remember (common shifts):
- Present → Past: “is/are” → “was/were”; “do/does” → “did”
- Past Simple → Past Perfect: “went” → “had gone” (often in statements)
- Present Perfect → Past Perfect: “has done” → “had done”
- will → would, can → could, may → might
- Time words: “today” → “that day”; “yesterday” → “the previous day”; “tomorrow” → “the following/next day”
- Pronouns change to keep meaning clear (I → he/she, my → his/her, etc.).
1️⃣Exercise 1
Prompt: had / said / they / since / been / 2018 / expanding / company / the / that
✓ Correct answer: They said that the company had been expanding since 2018.
2️⃣Exercise 2
Prompt: the / would / manager / week / the / send / documents / said / following / they
✓ Correct answer: The manager said they would send the documents the following week.
3️⃣Exercise 3
Prompt: assistant / she / new / a / her / told / needed / she / that / had
✓ Correct answer: She told her assistant that she needed a new one.
4️⃣Exercise 4
Prompt: internet / couldn’t / down / was / because / meeting / said / his / he / the / join / Lucas
✓ Correct answer: Lucas said he couldn’t join the meeting because his internet was down.
5️⃣Exercise 5
Prompt: interviewer / I / changed / asked / had / my / job / why / the
✓ Correct answer: The interviewer asked why I had changed my job.
6️⃣Exercise 6
Prompt: reminded / to / she / before / report / submit / forget / Friday / my / not / me
✓ Correct answer: She reminded me not to forget to submit my report before Friday.
7️⃣Exercise 7
Prompt: better / would / if / him / he / she / call / said / tomorrow / got
✓ Correct answer: She said she would call him if he got better tomorrow.
8️⃣Exercise 8
Prompt: been / Maria / there / for / five / said / she / working / years / had
✓ Correct answer: Maria said she had been working there for five years.
9️⃣Exercise 9
Prompt: that / still / in / he / told / they / the / project / was / he / believed / successful
✓ Correct answer: He told them that he still believed the project was successful.
🔟Exercise 10
Prompt: day / the / Julia / airport / he / said / at / previous / the / seen / had / he
✓ Correct answer: He said he had seen Julia at the airport the previous day.
Review the correct answers shown in green below each exercise!