Indirect speech

[goodox]

Hello everybody!

Thats my scope: Report what these people said. 

Example: Amandine: "I don't understand." Amandine said that she didn't understand. 

1. Katrin: "I am going to visit my parents tomorrow." 
Katrin said that she was going to visit her parents the next day. 

2. Bob: "I will talk to the trainees when I get back from Belgium."
Bob said that he would talk to the trainees when he get back from Belgium. 

3. Claire: "We met some nice American people while we were visiting London last year."
Claire said that they had met some nice American people while they had been visiting London last year. 

4. Helen: "I am too busy to read these e-mails at the moment."
Helen said that she was too busy to read those e-mails at the moment.

5. Michael: "Katrin has not finished writing her letter but she is going to send it as soon as she has."
Michael said that Katrin had not finished writing her letter but she was going to send it as soon as she has. 

6. Amandine: "We weren't able to reach our boss on the phone."
Amandine said that they hadn't able to reached their boss on the phone. 

Thank you in advance! 

[Alyssea]

Hello everybody!

Thats my scope: Report what these people said. 

Example: Amandine: "I don't understand." Amandine said that she didn't understand. 

1. Katrin: "I am going to visit my parents tomorrow." 
Katrin said that she was going to visit her parents the next day. 

2. Bob: "I will talk to the trainees when I get back from Belgium."
Bob said that he would talk to the trainees when he got back from Belgium. 

3. Claire: "We met some nice American people while we were visiting London last year."
Claire said that they had met some nice American people while they had been visiting London last year. 

4. Helen: "I am too busy to read these e-mails at the moment."
Helen said that she was too busy to read those e-mails at the moment.

5. Michael: "Katrin has not finished writing her letter but she is going to send it as soon as she has."
Michael said that Katrin had not finished writing her letter but she was going to send it as soon as she had. 

6. Amandine: "We weren't able to reach our boss on the phone."
Amandine said that they hadn't been able to reached their boss on the phone. 

Thank you in advance! 

[goodox]

Amandine: "We weren't able to reach our boss on the phone."

I thought, this sentence is (I'm not sure here with "is, was or had", maybe ist "had" right but "is" sounds right for me) written in Simple Past thats because I chose Simple Past Perfect. 

Amandine said that they hadn't been able to reached their boss on the phone. 

But I didn't know that I need an auxiliary too. I saw this "been" in a Past Perfect Progressive tense, thats because I don't used "been".   

[Alyssea]

Amandine: "We weren't able to reach our boss on the phone."

I thought this sentence was (I'm not sure if it should be "is," "was," or "had" here, maybe "had" is right, but "is" sounds right to me) written in Simple Past, which is why I chose past perfect in the second sentence.

The sentence was already written, in the past, so it's "was," not "is."

Amandine said that they hadn't been able to reach their boss on the phone. 

But I didn't know that I needed an auxiliary, too. I saw this "been" in the Past Perfect Progressive tense, which is why I didn't use it.

Apparently I missed "reached" in my initial edit, it should be "reach."

You could say, "Amandine said that they weren't able to reach their boss on the phone," instead, so just keep it in simple past rather than past perfect. But if you're putting "hadn't" (had not) into this sentence, you need a main verb. Adding "been" here actually doesn't make it past perfect progressive. "Had (not)" is the auxiliary verb, and "been" is the main verb. If you're using past perfect progressive, "had (not) been" is the auxiliary, and you'd have some main verb such as "jumping" after it.