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    The document summarizes the changes needed to reported or indirect speech from direct speech, including changing verbs to past tense forms and shifting deictic terms like pronouns, place, and time references to reflect the new temporal context outside of the original direct quotation. Key verbs like will and can may shift to would and could, respectively, and demonstratives like this and these become that and those.

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    The document summarizes the changes needed to reported or indirect speech from direct speech, including changing verbs to past tense forms and shifting deictic terms like pronouns, place, and time references to reflect the new temporal context outside of the original direct quotation. Key verbs like will and can may shift to would and could, respectively, and demonstratives like this and these become that and those.

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    Reported Speech-Info

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    The document summarizes the changes needed to reported or indirect speech from direct speech, including changing verbs to past tense forms and shifting deictic terms like pronouns, place, and time references to reflect the new temporal context outside of the original direct quotation. Key verbs like will and can may shift to would and could, respectively, and demonstratives like this and these become that and those.

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    Reported Speech (Nepriama reč)

    Direct Speech Reported Speech

    Present Simple Past Simple


    Present Continuous Past Continuous
    Past Simple Past Perfect Simple
    Past Continuous Past Perfect Continuous
    Present Perfect Simple Past Perfect Simple
    Present Perfect Continuous Past Perfect Continuous
    Past Perfect Simple Past Perfect Simple
    Past Perfect Continuous Past Perfect Continuous
    will would
    can could
    shall should

    this that
    these those
    here there

    now then
    today that day
    tonight that night
    tomorrow the following day
    the next month the following month
    yesterday the day before
    last week the week before
    3 days ago 3 days before

    We also have to change pronouns. E.g:

    Jane: ´We are travelling to Spain now. ´


    Jane said (that) they were travelling to Spain then.

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