Ca regula, da cu un timp inapoi actiunea din direct speech. "That" e optional.
1) Kate said to her mother (that) she was on the phone talking to Jade.
2) My friends asked me if I was working on the computer at that moment.
3) I told him that he could to that better than me.
4) The teacher asked her what did she know about australian fauna.
5) John said he was leaving at that moment.