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    Reported-Speech Grammar 2

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    The document discusses how to change direct speech into reported or indirect speech. It provides examples of changing different tenses like present, past, perfect, and continuous tenses into the appropriate past tenses when changing to reported speech. It also discusses changing other words like pronouns, places, times and expressions like may, can, will in reported speech.

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    The document discusses how to change direct speech into reported or indirect speech. It provides examples of changing different tenses like present, past, perfect, and continuous tenses into the appropriate past tenses when changing to reported speech. It also discusses changing other words like pronouns, places, times and expressions like may, can, will in reported speech.

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    Reported speech

    Direct speech Reported (indirect) speech

    • Present Simple  • Past Simple


    “My students love English” The teacher said that her students
    loved English.

    • Past Continuous
    • Present Continuous  The students said that they were
    “We are listening attentively” listening attentively.

    • Past Perfect
    Lara said that she hadn’t written her
    • Present Perfect  essay.
    “I haven’t written my essay”
    • Past Perfect Continuous
    The students said that they had been
    studying for hours for that exam.
    • Present Perfect Continuous
    “We have been studying for
    • Past Simple  • Past Perfect
    “The test was awful” Students said that the test had
    been awful.
    • Past Continuous  • Past Perfect Continuous
    “I got an F because Dino was John said that he had gotten an
    distracting me” F because Dino had been
    distacting him.

    • Past Perfect
    • Past Perfect 
    The teacher said that she hadn’t
    “I didn’t correct your tests
    corrected our tests because she
    because I had lost them”
    had lost them.

    • Past Perfect Continuous


    • Past Perfect Continuous
    “I hadn’t been listening to you
    The teacher said that she hadn’t
    at all”
    been listening to us at all.
    • WILL  • WOULD
    “You will get extra The teacher said that we
    homework” would get extra homework.
    • COULD
    • CAN  Lucia said that she could
    “I can help you with this task” help me with that task.

    • MIGHT
    • MAY  Ann said that she might not
    “I may not be in school be in school the next day.
    tomorrow”
    • Infinitive
    • Imperative  The teacher told us to open
    “Open your workbooks” our workbooks.
    What else changes?
    • Here • There
    • This, these • That, those
    • Today, tonight • That day, that night
    • Yesterday • The day before
    • Last week/ month • The previous week /the
    week before
    • Tomorrow • The next/ the following
    • Next week/ month day/ week/ month

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