Fill in the Blanks REPORTED SPEECHOnline version Using the correct form of the verbs to form reported sentences. by Guadalupe Díaz Jiménez 1 would were had to was HAVING were had to to to bought going won could help buy buy had going WAS Texto a Completar 1 . THE LOTTERY STORY The strange story of the Short Family and their nosy neighbours . . . 2 . One morning Mr Short arrived home very happily and shouted : WE ARE RICH ! ! WE ? VE WON THE LOTTERY ! I BOUGHT A TICKET YESTERDAY ! ! And everyone started to make plans . . . 3 . Mrs Short shouted too ! ! I´m going to buy an expensive fur coat ! We´re going to travel to Bahamas ! 4 . Bob , the son , said : I can buy a huge motorbike now ! ! 5 . I must phone my friend Rita . We will buy an iPod with lots of nice songs . Gwendoline , the daughter , said : 6 . HELP ! HELP ! I´M HAVING A HEART ATTACK ! ! With all the excitement , nobody heard grandma shouting : 7 . So all of them had to run to hospital with grandma . Next morning , Leonard , their nosy neighbour started spreading the gossip around the neighbourhood . 8 . You know , I overheard the Shorts yesterday . Mr Short said ? that they rich . He said that they the lottery . He told them that he a ticket the day before . 9 . Mrs Short said that she buy an expensive fur coat . And she said that they travel to Bahamas . 10 . Bob , their stupid son said that he a huge motorbike then . 11 . Gwendoline told them that she phone her friend Rita . She also said that they an iPod with lots of nice songs 12 . Poor Grandma ! Nobody heard her . She asked them her . SHE SAID THAT SHE A HEART ATTACK ! ! !