167 Indirect speech to direct speech peg 307-25

Put the following into direct speech with the appropriate punctuation.

1 She asked if he'd like to go to the concert and I said that I was sure she would.

2 She told me to look where I was going as the road was full of holes and was very badly lit.

3 They said that while they were bathing they saw someone examining their clothes,

4 I asked if she had looked everywhere and she said that she had.

5 He suggested giving her a bottle of wine.

6 He said that the new carpet had arrived and asked where he was to put it.

7 He said that two days previously an enormous load of firewood had been dumped at his front gate and that since then he hadn't been able to get his car out.

8 They offered me some more wine and I accepted.

9 He said that if I found the front door locked I was to go round to the back.

10 She asked the burglars who they were and who had let them in. They told her to sit down and keep quiet unless she wanted to get hurt.

11 He asked what the weather had been like during my holiday and I said that it had been awful.

12 He suggested going down to the harbour and seeing if they could hire a boat.

13 He said that if I didn't like escalators I could go up the emergency staircase. I thanked him and said that I would do that.

14 He suggested that Tom and I should go ahead and get the tickets.

15 He said that he thought my electric iron was unsafe and advised me to have it seen to.

16 He said that if war broke out he would have to leave the country at once.

17 I asked him if he had enjoyed house-hunting and he said that he hadn't.

18 She said that she was surprised to see that the grandfather clock had stopped and asked

if anyone had been fiddling with it.

19 She said that she had tried to ring up her mother several times on the previous day but

had not succeeded in getting through.

20 I asked her if she'd like to borrow the book but she thanked me and said that she had

already read it and hadn't liked it very much.

21 He wanted to know if I was going to the dance and suggested that we should make up

a party and go together.

22 I told her to stop making a fuss about nothing and said that she was lucky to have got a

seat at all.

23 The clerk in the booking office inquired if I wanted a single or return ticket. I asked if a

return was any cheaper. He said it made no difference.

24 My employer hoped I would not be offended if he told me that, in his opinion, I would

do better in some other kind of job.

25 The AA man told the woman that if her wheels had gone a couple of inches nearer the

edge, the car would have plunged into the ravine.

26 He said I mustn't mind if the first one wasn't any good.

27 He asked the crowd if they thought that he was a liar and the crowd shouted that they

did.

28 I stopped a man in the street and asked him to help me with my car.

The man asked if it would take long, explaining that he was on his way to catch a train.

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