Cover of the textbook Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10 - Language focus 1 for the textbook Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave from Pearson Education

Question

Match reported speech sentences a-e below to five of the direct quotes in the article. Underline the parts which are different in the reported versions.

Answer

  1. 3 - The mayor told journalists that if you excluded the killings. Washington actually had
  2. 4 - The lawyer asked the witness whether she had been present when her photograph had been taken,
  3. 5 - The actress said that smoking kills people and added that if you are killed, then you have lost an important part of your Life.
  4. 8 - The lawyer asked the witness how his first marriage had ended. The witness replied that it had ended with death. The lawyer then asked whose death had ended the marriage.
  5. 13 - The minister said that he didn't know what he had said, but that he knew what he thought and that he assumed that that was what he had said.