REPORTED COMMANDS

Finish the sentences using Reported speech. Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3

Affirmative commands

• Direct Speech → Mum: “Tidy your room.”
• Reported Speech → Mum told me to tidy my room.

• Direct Speech → Speaker: “Could you close the window, please?”
• Reported Speech → She asked me to close the window.

Negative commands

• Direct Speech → Policeman: “Don’t park there.”
• Reported Speech → The policeman told me not to park there

• Direct Speech → Speaker: “Could you not make so much noise? .”
• Reported Speech → She asked me not to make so much noise.

There are many other reporting verbs that can be used depending on the meaning in Direct Speech, e.g.

• advise → The doctor advised me to stop smoking.
• promise → My dad promised to buy me a football.
• agree → We agreed to meet on Saturday.
• offer → He offered to drive me to the airport.
• suggest → Dad suggested going to the match. Dad suggested that we go to the match. Do not use the infinitive after suggest. Dad suggested to go to the match.