Table of Contents Chapter 19 19.7.4 Exercise 4: Reported speech I
  learn languages with music Classic Rocks

previous
Chapter 19: Conjunctive, Conditional and Reported speech

  19.7.4 Exercise 4: Reported speech I

To decide which the correct form is, you should decide first in which relation in means of time the narrative and the action itself is.

Choose the correct form  
    check od. answer
  He said he had bought it.  
Er sagte, .
  He said he would buy it.  
  Er sagte, .
  He said he would buy it.  
  Er sagte, .
  He said that they would buy it.  
  Er sagte, .
  He said that they drank too much.  
  Er sagte .
  He says that he has arrived today.  
  Er sagt, .
  He says that he will arrive today.  
  Er sagt, .
  They said that they were cheated.  
  Sie sagten, man .
  They said that the men cheated on them.  
  Sie sagten, dass die Männer .
  They said that the women had cheated on them.  
  Sie sagten, dass die Frauen .
  They said that they would cheat on them.  
  Sie sagten, dass man .
  You said that they had cheated on them.  
  Du sagtest, dass sie .


   

previous