trouble with Reported Speech?

Question

I had problems with my hw which dealing with Reported Speech.
Can somebody help me? thx

Use t e formal form.

John said, "I don't feel well today. I am staying home."
"I don't believe you," said Kelly, "because you said the same thinng last week."
"You're right. I'll go to class tomorrow," said John.
"I hope you go," Kelly said. "I know you want to do well."

That's the original question above. not the answer.

Answer 1

What you have done looks OK to me. Perhaps you could have used "replied Kelly" and "Kelly answered".

In general writing it would have been presumed that the character speaking changes when the "speech marks" are closed & then re-opened.

John said, "I don't feel well today. I am staying home."
I don't believe you," said Kelly, "because you said the same thing last week."
"You're right. I'll go to class tomorrow."
"I hope you go, I know you want to do well."

Answer 2

John said that he was not feeling well that day and declared that he was staying at home.Kelly told him that she did not believe him and that he had said the same thing the previous week.John declared that she was right and that he would go to class the next say.Kelly said that she wanted him to go and that she knew he wanted to do well.

Answer 3

Ok. The examples you have given are instances of Direct Speech, e.g.: She asked, "what is reported speech?"

Reported speech is: I heard her ask a question about what Reported Speech is.

Put simply, if it's in speech marks, it's Direct Speech; if it's not, it's Reported Speech.