4)Complete the gaps with the verbs in the correct
form.
1 "Lots of people are wearing costumes," he said to us.
He told us that lots of people.........costumes.
2."We can go to the museum," they said.
They said that they.........go to the museum.
3."I'll meet you at the opera house," Ann said to me.
Ann told me that she ....... me at the opera house.
4. Alex said, "Everyone has left."
Alex said that everybody .........
5. "Hedgehogs sleep during the winter," she said.
She said that hedgehogs..........during the winter
form.
1 "Lots of people are wearing costumes," he said to us.
He told us that lots of people.........costumes.
2."We can go to the museum," they said.
They said that they.........go to the museum.
3."I'll meet you at the opera house," Ann said to me.
Ann told me that she ....... me at the opera house.
4. Alex said, "Everyone has left."
Alex said that everybody .........
5. "Hedgehogs sleep during the winter," she said.
She said that hedgehogs..........during the winter
1. He told us lots of people were wearing costumes.
2. They said that they could go to the museum.
3. Ann told me that she would meet me at the opera house.
4. Alex said that everybody had left.
5. She said that hedgehogs slept/sleep* during the winter.
*If a reported sentence refers to a fact (or general truth) we don't have to change the tense in indirect speech.
I hope this proves useful to you.