Reported speech

 TYPICAL REPORTING VERBS:

told/ asked+ personal object (you, my sister, David, them, ...)
I told you I would be late.
I asked my sister if she would lend me some money.


said+ personal object
I said I would be late.


said+ to + personal object (you, my sister, David, them, ...)
I said to him I would be late.


Typical mistakes:

· don't confuse tell and say, e.g. He said me (that) he was ill; He told me (that) he was ill; He said to me (that) he was ill.
· don't forget to change the tenses, e.g. The waiter said he will call the manager; The waiter said he would call the manager.
· don't forget to change the word order in reported questions, e.g. She asked him what was his name; She asked him what his name was.


http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=1629 
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/reported_speech/pronouns.htm 
http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/questions2/exercise5.swf 
http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/questions2/exercise4.swf