Unit 8 Crime, 8B Grammar, Reported speech (1), page 87
Exercise 1
2 ‘I want to go to bed.’
3 ‘We’re arriving at six o’clock.’
4 ‘I don’t like cheese.’
5 ‘I went to Italy in 2009.’
6 ‘I’m reading a good book.’
7 ‘We received a lot of good advice.’
8 ‘I’m not going to do the washing-up.’
Exercise 2
2 was
3 were appealing
4 was going to search
5 had launched
6 made
7 thought, was
Exercise 3
2 Mike said that somebody had broken into their house the night before.
3 Kate said that people sometimes sold drugs outside her school.
4 The police officer said that they were going to study the CCTV footage that day.
5 Fred said that John had stolen a camera from a shop the day before.
6 Sam said that the police were looking for the thief who had stolen his car.
Exercise 4
2 … that they had arrived two minutes earlier.
3 … that they were getting out of their car.
4 … that she recognised one of them.
5 … that he had robbed a bank in London four years before / ago.
6 … that they looked nervous.
7 … that one of them was carrying a large black bag.
8 … that they were going into the bank.
9 … that she was going to follow them.