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GRAMMAR Reported questions 3 Complete the conversation. Use the speech
bubbles to help you.
1 Write the words in the correct order to make
reported questions. When did it happen? How did it happen?
0 whether / wondered / a text message / received /
she / had Is he badly hurt? Where is he now?
Jessica
wondered whether she had A: Mum, I told Michelle about Neil’s accident.
received a text message . She asked .
1
1 what time / to / his mum / wanted / know / B: I think it was the day before yesterday.
collecting / was / him A: Oh, and also, she wanted to know
Billy 2 .
. B: No, no one seems to know for sure.
2 I / me / for breakfast / what / asked / wanted A: She wondered .
3
Mum B: Well, he broke his arm, but it wasn’t a bad break.
. A: Ah, so is he at home now. Michelle asked
3 to / the phone / we / had / know / wanted / if / 4 .
nished chatting / on B: He’s still in hospital I think.
Dad
. 4 Correct the mistakes in these sentences or
4 cinema / the man / asked / which oor / the / put a tick ( ) by any you think are correct.
on / was 1 They were new in our area and I want to
The teens know who it was.
. 2 By chance he was in the park and I said him
5 if / I / picked up / wondered / the post office / had / if he would like to play.
her parcel / from 3 I wonder what’s inside the box so I open it.
Ms March
. 4 I saw him standing in the TV room, so I asked
where does he come from.
2 Complete the reported questions. Make the
necessary changes to pronouns, possessive
adjectives and tenses. VOCABULARY Adverbs of degree: fairly,
pretty, quite, reasonably
1 ‘Are you ready to have dinner yet?’
Mum asked 1 Choose the correct answer.
ready to have dinner. 1 A: Did you see that programme about Facebook
2 ‘Have you sent your aunt a text wishing her a last night?
happy birthday?’ B: No, I was very / quite busy – I had homework for
Mum wanted to know three subjects to do for today.
a text wishing 2 A: How was the English test?
her a happy birthday. B: It was really / fairly easy. I think I probably got
3 ‘Have you listened to me at all today?’ about 60%.
Mum asked at 3 A: What did you think of the restaurant?
all that day. B: The meals were reasonably / very cheap, but not
4 ‘Do you think you’ll hand in your biology project on as cheap as I’d expected.
Wednesday?’
Mum wondered 2 Put the adverb in brackets into the correct place in
my biology project on Wednesday. the sentence.
5 ‘Will you watch a lm on your computer later?’ 1 It was noisy in the restaurant so I couldn’t hear the
Mum wanted to know musicians. (quite)
computer later. 2 I didn’t have any lunch so I was feeling hungry by
6 ‘Would you like to go to the cinema instead?’ 3.00. (pretty)
Mum wondered 3 On the whole, Dad kept calm when I told him the
the cinema instead. news. (reasonably)
7 ‘Do you want to go for a pizza after the lm?’ 4 Xanthe did well at school but not as well as her
Mum asked for a brother. (quite)
pizza after the lm.

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