1. "Where is my umbrella?" she asked.

She asked....... ..me where her umbrella was......... 

2. "How are you?" Martin asked us.

Martin asked us.........how we were..................

3. He asked, "Do I have to do it?"

He asked.....................me if he had to do it..................

4. "Where have you been?" the mother asked her daughter.

The mother asked her daughter......... where she had been.............................

5. "Which dress do you like best?" she asked her boyfriend.

She asked her boyfriend.................which dress he liked best...............

Exercise 1:Complete the sentences in reported speech. Note the change of pronouns and tenses.

1.      "Where is my umbrella?" she asked.

→ She asked me where her umbrella was

2.      "How are you?" Martin asked us.

→ Martin asked us how we were

3.      He asked, "Do I have to do it?"

→ He asked me if he had to do it

4.      "Where have you been?" the mother asked her daughter.

→ The mother asked her daughter where she had been

5.      "Which dress do you like best?" she asked her boyfriend.

→ She asked her boyfriend which dress he liked best

6.      "What are they doing?" she asked.

→ She wanted to know what they were doing

7.      "Are you going to the cinema?" he asked me.

→ He wanted to know if I was going to the cinema

8.      The teacher asked, "Who speaks English?"

→ The teacher wanted to know who spoke English

9.      "How do you know that?" she asked me.

→ She asked me how I knew that

10.  "Has Caron talked to Kevin?" my friend asked me.

→ My friend asked me if Caron had talked to Kevin