Reported Speech Error Correction

This reported speech error correction exercise targets the mistakes learners make when proofreading indirect speech in complete sentences: missing tense backshift, leaving pronouns or possessives from the original speaker's point of view, forgetting time and place changes, and keeping direct-question word order.

Wrong: "She asked where did I live." Correct: "She asked where I lived."
Wrong: "He said he will phone me tomorrow." Correct: "He said he would phone me the next day."
Wrong: "Maya said I have lost my notes." Correct: "Maya said she had lost her notes."

Because this page uses click-edit proofreading, you do not transform a quoted sentence from scratch. You inspect a finished reported sentence, click only the wrong chunk, and leave already-correct sentences unchanged. That makes the practice closer to editing exam answers, emails, reports, and classroom writing, where the real skill is deciding whether the problem is tense, reference, time, place, question order, or no problem at all.