Business Reported Speech Ellipsis BE - Exercise Worksheet

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Reported Speech + Ellipsis

Article excerpt · target grammar marked

Valentina Rossi predicted nearshoring would dominate. She warned that geopolitical risk had made just-in-time manufacturing dangerously fragile. Park claimed that dual sourcing was the practical answer — and so did several delegates.

Grammar Reference · Reported Speech + Ellipsis

Reported speech:

She said geopolitical risk had made just-in-time fragile. — present → past perfect after past reporting verb

Reporting verb

He insisted that dual sourcing was the answer. — insist/claim/warn + that-clause

Ellipsis in reported

Park disagreed with Rossi, and so did Diallo. — auxiliary substitution avoids repeating the full verb phrase

Common error

She said that reshoring is unavoidable. ✗ → reshoring was unavoidable ✓ — backshift after past reporting verb

01Exercise 1 — Form · Write the Correct Form

Reported Speech + Ellipsis

1.The analyst that tariffs had pushed companies toward nearshoring.

2.The CEO warned that the bottleneck affect the quarterly figures.

3.Diallo insisted that African ports included in any new trade architecture.

4.Park said geopolitical risk factored into the cost models for years.

5.Rossi agreed with that position, and the trade minister .

6.The report confirmed that dual sourcing supply chain resilience significantly.

02Exercise 2 — Transform

rewrite with the new structure

1.The director says: 'Reshoring is essential for national security.'

2.The economist says: 'Companies have ignored geopolitical risk for too long.'

3.The analyst says: 'We will see more nearshoring in the next decade.'

4.Rossi agreed with the timeline. Park agreed with it too. (use ellipsis)

5.The chair says: 'Arctic routes are now in the pipeline and cannot be ignored.'

03Exercise 3 — About You

in your notebook

Personalise: complete five sentences about yourself using the target grammar.

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