Cover of the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Workbook

The key answer of exercise 7

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 13 - News and the media (Part 3) for the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Workbook with authors Carol Nuttall and Amanda French from National Geographic Learning

Question

Rewrite the sentences in reported speech using the words in brackets.

Answer

  1. The Prime Minister vowed to cut taxes in the next six months.
  2. The speaker urged the crowd to sign the petition and make the outcry too loud to be ignored.
  3. Gerard rejected the committee’s offer.
  4. The physicist acknowledged that s/he had been misguided in his / her calculations.
  5. The company spokesperson denied that the company / they had tried to play down the importance of the problem.
  6. Marie blames the nanny state for children’s loss of contact with nature.
  7. The minister confirmed that Parliament is / was going to pass the new education bill this / that year.
  8. The MP refused to discuss the issue with the press until the next day.