Mixed Reported Speech exercises — Set 4: Advanced Mixed Practice (Typing Practice)
Typing Practice • 20 questions • 15 min
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"I've been waiting for over an hour!" → She complained that she for over an hour.
has been waiting
was waiting
had been waiting
waited
Mixed Reported Speech exercises online (Typing Practice)
This advanced set tests everything: tense backshift across all tenses, modal verb changes (will → would, can → could, must → had to), pronoun and time/place shifts, no-backshift exceptions for general truths, all sentence types (statements, questions, commands, requests), and a wide range of reporting verbs including advanced introductory verbs. Some questions include tricky edge cases — read carefully and apply the correct rules.