16 Ann said, 'Englishmen make good husbands because they are nearly always willing to help in the house.'
-> Ann said that Englishmen made good husbands because they were nearly always willing to help in the house
17 Mary answered, 'I like men to be useful but I don't like them to be too domesticated. I prefer them to keep out of the kitchen altogether. Men look silly in aprons anyway.'
-> Mary answered she liked men to be useful but she didn't like them to be too domesticated, she prefered them to keep out of the kitchen altogether, men looked silly in aprons anyway.
18 Motoring report: The new Rolls Royce runs so quietly that all you can hear is the ticking of the clock.
Managing director of the Rolls Royce company: In that case we'll have to do something about the clock.
-> The motoring report stated that the new Rolls Royce run so quitely that all we could hear was the ticking of the clock. The managing director replied that they would have to do something about the clock
19 'I don't know what to do with all my plums. I suppose I'll have to make jam. The trouble is that none of us eats jam,' she said.
-> She said she didn't know what to do with all her plums. She supposed she would have to make jam and the trouble was no one in her family ate
20 'We like working on Sundays because we get double pay,' explained the builders
-> The builders explained they liked working on Sundays because they got double pay
21 He said, 'I am quite a good cook and I do all my own washing and mending too.'
-> He said that he was quite a good cook and he did all his own wasing and mending too
22 'You can keep that one if you like, Joan,' he said. 'I've got plenty of others.'
-> He told Joan she could keep that one if she liked as he'd got plenty of others
23 'I'm going fishing with mother this afternoon,' said the small boy, 'and we are going into the garden now to dig for worms.' (Omit now).
-> The small boy said that he was going fishing with mother that afternoon and they were going into the garden to dig for worms
24 'You've got my umbrella,' I said crossly. 'Yours is in your bedroom.'
-> I told her she'd got my umbrella and that hers was in her bedroom
25 'I know exactly what they said,' the private detective explained to his client, 'because I bugged their phone.'
-> The private detective explained to his client that he knew exactly what they had said because he had bugged their phone
26 'I'll sit up till she comes in, but I hope she won't be late,' he said.
-> He said that he would sit up until she came in but he hoped she wouldn't be late

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