Answer — Exercise 7
13 - News and the media (Part 3)·Outcomes Advanced - Workbook
Question
Rewrite the sentences in reported speech using the words in brackets.
Answer
- The Prime Minister vowed to cut taxes in the next six months.
- The speaker urged the crowd to sign the petition and make the outcry too loud to be ignored.
- Gerard rejected the committee’s offer.
- The physicist acknowledged that s/he had been misguided in his / her calculations.
- The company spokesperson denied that the company / they had tried to play down the importance of the problem.
- Marie blames the nanny state for children’s loss of contact with nature.
- The minister confirmed that Parliament is / was going to pass the new education bill this / that year.
- The MP refused to discuss the issue with the press until the next day.