Hope it helps.

Mother said Tommy the turtle has escaped

Now, most of us came up with things such as:

Mother said, “Tommy, the turtle has escaped.”

“Mother!” said Tommy, “the turtle has escaped!”

One of my classmates entered our favorite:

“Mother,” said Tommy the turtle, “has escaped!”

Other than that, try taking some highly unusual situation and conjugating your verb. For instance,

What did we agree about pulling out each other’s nose hair?

The assistant principal is slowly crossing his eyes on C-SPAN.

Do those help?

Then it happened again and it was “I got shampoo in my eyes and it slowed me down bc my eyes were burning so long!”

LOL seriously excuses excuses