Gateway B1 Unit 9 Grammar | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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‘She’s presenting her Rome trilogy today,’ they said.

They said (that) she was presenting her war trilogy that day.

‘You have to look up the new words in this dictionary,’ the teacher said.

The teacher said (that) we had to look up the new words in that dictionary.

‘Where were you born?’ the interviewer wanted to know.

The interviewer wanted to know where I was born.

‘Have you filled in all the forms?’ the secretary asked me.

The secretary asked me if/whether I had filled in all the forms.

‘Can I fl ick through the new books?’ I asked the librarian.

I asked the librarian if/whether I could flick through the new books.

‘I haven’t written children’s fi ction before, but I may start a book next year,’ she said.

She said (that) she hadn’t written children’s fiction before, but that she might start a book the following year.

‘Why didn’t you enjoy the last Harry Potter novel?’ Tony asked James.

Tony asked James why he hadn’t enjoyed the last Harry Potter novel.

‘I’ll tell you how the story ends if you don’t finish the book by tonight,’ he said.

He said (that) he would tell me how the story ended if I didn’t finish the book by that night.

‘Why don’t you like reading?’ Mum asked my sister.

Mum asked my sister why she didn’t like reading.

‘All my stories are set here, in my home town,’ the author said.

The author said (that) all his/her stories were set there, in his/her home town.