"You shouldn't eat the cupcakes and biscuits before dinner," said my mother.
→ My mother advised me not to eat the cupcakes and biscuits before dinner.

"Get down on the ground!" the police officers yelled at the members of the street gang.
→ The police officers commanded the members of the street gang to get down on the ground.

Ms. Henderson said, "Could you summarize the fourth paragraph of the text, please?"
→ Ms. Henderson asked us to summarize the fourth paragraph of the text.

Angelina's doctor told her, "You must rest for two weeks and quit working long hours."
→ Angelina's doctor ordered her to rest for two weeks and quit working long hours.

"May I see your driver's license and vehicle's registration certificate?" the officer said to Mr. Harison.
→ The officer asked Mr. Harison if he could see his driver's license and vehicle's registration certificate.

"Will you go to the public concert at the stadium that is tonight?" asked my cousins.
→ My cousins wanted to know if I would go to the public concert at the stadium that night.

The boy's mother said he would be mad when he was two years old.
→ D. would - was

Lucas's best friend George asked him what present he wanted for his fifteenth birthday.
→ A. he wanted

Our biology teacher told us that an octopus has three hearts and eight tentacles.
→ C. has

Molly said she and her sister had lived in that industrial city for almost ten years.
→ A. had lived

The teacher said that Mike had better not forget to submit his homework assignments again.
→ A. had better not

Sarah said that his big brother Matthew had worked at the city's hospital as a heart surgeon for five years.
→ D. had worked

The coroner contended that the cause of the writer's death was unknown.
→ C. was

Hannah texted me that she and her friends had been traveling for two weeks.
→ A. had been traveling

The chief executive decided to implement the new policy immediately.
→ A. decided to

Daniel suggested avoiding problems like obesity and poor health.
→ A. avoiding