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Want to practice your grammar? This reported speech commands and requests quiz is designed to help you master how to report direct requests and commands in English. This short test will give you instant feedback and help you spot common mistakes.
Test your understanding and boost your confidence with the quiz below.
Reported Speech Commands and Requests Quiz
Rewriting Commands and Requests into Reported Speech
This is a transformation exercise:
- Read each sentence and rewrite it in reported speech.
- Use correct punctuation.
- Make all the necessary changes to pronouns and verb forms.
Quick Recap: Reported Requests and Commands
When reporting requests and commands, we often use verbs like ask, tell, order, or warn, followed by to + base verb (for positive commands) or not to + base verb (for negative ones).
Here is the structure of reported requests and commands:
- Affirmative Requests and Commands:
- Reporting verb + object + to + base verb
- Direct: “Please sit down,” the teacher said.
➤ Reported: The teacher asked us to sit down.
- Negative Requests and Commands:
- Reporting verb + object + not to + base verb
- Direct: “Don’t talk during the lesson,” the teacher said.
➤ Reported: The teacher told us not to talk during the lesson.
Examples:
- Direct: “Please sit down,” the teacher said.
Reported: The teacher asked us to sit down. - Direct: “Don’t touch that,” she said.
Reported: She told me not to touch that. - Direct: “sit down,” she said.
Reported: She ordered him to sit down. - Direct: “Don’t speak loudly,” he said.
Reported: He told her not to talk loudly.
Always remember to:
- Use the appropriate reporting verb based on context and tone.
- Change pronouns and time references as needed.
- Consider adding not before “to + the base form of the verb” when the request or the command is in the negatove form.
More on the meaning of reported speech.
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