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    The document compares the tenses used in direct speech versus reported speech. It provides examples of how the present simple becomes past simple in reported speech, the present continuous becomes past continuous, and how other tenses like present perfect, past simple, will and can are changed to past perfect, past simple, would and could respectively when converting direct speech to reported speech. It is a guide for changing verb tenses between direct and indirect speech.

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    REPORTED SPEECH TABLA

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    The document compares the tenses used in direct speech versus reported speech. It provides examples of how the present simple becomes past simple in reported speech, the present continuous becomes past continuous, and how other tenses like present perfect, past simple, will and can are changed to past perfect, past simple, would and could respectively when converting direct speech to reported speech. It is a guide for changing verb tenses between direct and indirect speech.

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    Reported Speech Tabla

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    The document compares the tenses used in direct speech versus reported speech. It provides examples of how the present simple becomes past simple in reported speech, the present continuous becomes past continuous, and how other tenses like present perfect, past simple, will and can are changed to past perfect, past simple, would and could respectively when converting direct speech to reported speech. It is a guide for changing verb tenses between direct and indirect speech.

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    DIRECT SPEECH REPORTED SPEECH

    PRESENT SIMPLE PAST SIMPLE


    “She always wears a coat” He said (that) she always wore a coat

    PRESENT CONTINUOUS PAST CONTINUOUS


    “I’m looking for my keys” She said (that) she was looking for her keys

    PRESENT PERFECT
    “She had written three letters for her friend” PAST PERFECT
    1. He said (that) she had written three letters for her
    PAST SIMPLE friend.
    “My friend gave me a bar of chocolate” 2. He said (that) his friend had given him a bar of
    chocolate.
    WILL WOULD
    “I will finish my report in two days” He said (that) he would finish his report in two days.

    CAN COULD
    “I can do it by myself” She said (that) she could do it by herself.

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