12.“I can finish it in half an hour,” the worker said to me.

→The worker told me he could finish it in half an hour.

11. “The earth goes around the sun,” the teacher said.

→The teacher said (that) the earth goes around the sun.

10. “I’m checking your homework now,”his mother said.

→His mother said that she was checking his homework then.

9.“We’re going to study in the USA next month,”they said.

→They said that they were going to study in the USA the next month.

8. The teacher said,“Can you hear me, children?”

→The teacher asked the children if they could hear him.

7. Bob said to Mary,“I saw the film two days ago.”

→Bob told Mary that he had seen the film two days before.

6. The children said,“We’ll be back tomorrow.”

→The children said that they would be back the next day.”

5. “I haven’t heard from my parents these days,” he said.

→He said that he hadn’t heard from his parents those days.

4. He said,“I repaired the watch yesterday.”

→He said that he had repaired the watch the day before.”

3. “We will come here again tonight,” the students said to the teacher.

→The students told the teacher that they would go there again that night.