Answer of exercise No.18
Rewrite the following in reported speech:
1. The visitor said to me that we wanted to speak to me.
2. The student told the teacher that they were sorry for being very late.
3. My wife said that she would answer the phone for me
4. His neighbour said that I had an excellent cook.
5. The man told the police officer that he had told him everything he knew.
6. The magistrate ordered the foreigner to leave the country at once.
7. The man said to the fruit seller that the mangoes wouldn’t keep and they are too soft.
8. His friend asked him when he would return the money he had borrowed from him and also said that he wouldn’t meet with an accident.
9. The doctor told me that I had to stay in bed for a week and assured me that I would soon be well.
10. The captain told us that we would have to cancel the match if it rained.