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    This document provides a summary of how to change direct speech into reported speech by modifying verb tenses and other elements like pronouns, time and place adjectives. It shows the changes needed for common verb tenses in direct speech like present simple, present perfect, present continuous, past simple and others when converting to the corresponding past tense or construction in reported speech. Examples are provided to illustrate each rule for changing direct speech into reported speech.

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    Grammas notes about changes from Direct Speech to Reported Speech

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    This document provides a summary of how to change direct speech into reported speech by modifying verb tenses and other elements like pronouns, time and place adjectives. It shows the changes needed for common verb tenses in direct speech like present simple, present perfect, present continuous, past simple and others when converting to the corresponding past tense or construction in reported speech. Examples are provided to illustrate each rule for changing direct speech into reported speech.

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    TEACHER: PABLO TEJEDOR

    CHANGES DIRECT REPORTED SPEECH


    DIRECT SPEECH

    REPORTED SPEECH

    PRESENT SIMPLE

    PAST SIMPLE

    VERB TENSES

    My dad works for Microsoft, Peter said. (*)

    PRESENT PERFECT
    My guests havent arrived yet, Pam said.

    PRESENT CONTINUOUS
    Im doing the washing up, Marc said.

    PAST SIMPLE

    Peter said that his dad worked for Microsoft.


    PAST PERFECT

    Pam said that her guests hadnt arrived yet.


    PAST CONTINUOUS

    Marc said that he was doing the washing up.


    PAST PERFECT

    We decided to leave today my parents said.

    PAST CONTINUOUS
    I wasnt telling the truth, he admitted.

    PAST PERFECT

    They said that they had decided to leave that day.


    PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS

    He admitted that he wasnt telling the truth.


    PAST PERFECT

    We had done it together, Steve said.

    PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS


    Ive been waiting for ages, Max said.

    PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS


    Id been telling you for weeks, Tim said.

    BE GOING TO + base form


    Were going to get home early, they said.

    Steve said that they had done it together.


    PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS

    Max said that he had been waiting for ages.


    PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS

    Tim said that he had been telling us for weeks.


    WERE GOING TO + base form

    They said that they were going to get home early.

    WILL / WOULD

    WOULD

    Sam said that he would take me home.

    MODAL VERBS

    I will take you home Sam said.

    CAN / COULD

    COULD

    Can you open the window? he asked.

    MAY

    MIGHT

    We may go to the party they said.

    Reference
    to people

    They said that they might go to the party.

    MUST

    HAD TO

    You must present the project in pairs he


    said.

    He said that we had to present the project in pairs.

    SHOULD

    SHOULD

    Dad said that I should go to bed.

    You should go to bed dad said.

    Time and
    space

    He asked me if I could open the window.

    Personal pronouns
    Possessive adjectives / pronouns
    Tom said: We are meeting at my house Tom said that they were meeting at his house.

    Today > that day


    Tonight > that night
    Tomorrow > the next/ following day
    Netx (week, month, year) > The next /
    following (week, month, year)

    Yesterday > the previous day / the day before


    Now > then / at that moment
    Here > there
    This > that - These > those

    (*) When the direct speech is in the present simple and it refers to events that are
    always/still true (habits) we can report in the same tense (present).

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