Question

Mother: "I've cooked pasta and fried chicken". Mother said that she had cooked pasta and fried chicken. Mother said that she had been cooking pasta and fried chicken. When we report someone’s words we can do it in two ways: (1) we can use direct speech with quotation marks (“I work in an office.”), or (2) we can use reported speech (She said she worked in an office.) Speech reports consist of two parts: the reporting clause (She said that …) in which we usually use a reporting verb (e.g. say, tell, ask, etc.) and the reported clause (…she worked in an office.).Some verbs (accept, agree, complain, feel, say, etc.) connected with reporting can be followed bya that-clause acting as the direct object: She said that she worked in an office.Usually we change the tense of what was actually said in direct speech. The present perfect tense (has eaten) usually changes to the past perfect tense (had eaten) in reported speech. Therefore, in the test sentence ‘Mother: "I've cooked pasta and fried chicken".’ we should change ‘’ve cooked’ to ‘had cooked’ or the contracted form ‘’d cooked’. Thus, we are to choose ANSWER 2.

Accepted Answer

Mother said that she has cooked pasta and fried chicken. Mother said that she  cooked pasta and fried chicken. b

Question	Mother: "I've cooked pasta and fried chicken".
A	Mother said that she has cooked pasta and fried chicken.
B	Mother said that she had cooked pasta and fried chicken.
C	Mother said that she cooked pasta and fried chicken.
D	Mother said that she had been cooking pasta and fried chicken.
Answer	b
Remark	When we report someone’s words we can do it in two ways: (1) we can use direct speech with quotation marks (“I work in an office.”), or (2) we can use reported speech (She said she worked in an office.) Speech reports consist of two parts: the reporting clause (She said that …) in which we usually use a reporting verb (e.g. say, tell, ask, etc.) and the reported clause (…she worked in an office.).Some verbs (accept, agree, complain, feel, say, etc.) connected with reporting can be followed bya that-clause acting as the direct object: She said that she worked in an office.Usually we change the tense of what was actually said in direct speech. The present perfect tense (has eaten) usually changes to the past perfect tense (had eaten) in reported speech. Therefore, in the test sentence ‘Mother: "I've cooked pasta and fried chicken".’ we should change ‘’ve cooked’ to ‘had cooked’ or the contracted form ‘’d cooked’. Thus, we are to choose ANSWER 2.

Pasta Fried Cooked Mother Chicken Direct Speech Reported