This is more dialogue practice on Reported Speech. You will hear a detective asking a hotel employee about a robbery. Below is the transcript to the report the employee gives to the detective and the questions that were asked.

Listen to the podcast first then review the transcript. You may need to refer to your favorite grammar book to check the reported speech forms.

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Reported Speech Answers

What did he say about himself?
Smith said that he was a businessman from Texas.

What else did he tell you?
He told me that he had an important meeting next week.

What did he ask about the hotel?
He asked where the Presidential Suite was.
He said that he would be bringing expensive computers to the meeting.

* Yes/ No Question:
He asked if there were security alarms in the suite.

*Imperative:
He told us not to clean his room.

He asked where the back exit to the hotel was.
He asked where the nearest police station was.