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    This document outlines the rules for changing direct speech to indirect speech in English. It provides examples of how to change the tense and pronouns when converting statements, questions, imperatives, and modal verbs from direct to indirect speech. For statements, the tense shifts back one tense (e.g. present to past). Questions and imperatives also see pronoun changes to reflect the new speaker. Modal verbs like can, may, must, and should undergo predictable changes to their past tense forms.

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    This document outlines the rules for changing direct speech to indirect speech in English. It provides examples of how to change the tense and pronouns when converting statements, questions, imperatives, and modal verbs from direct to indirect speech. For statements, the tense shifts back one tense (e.g. present to past). Questions and imperatives also see pronoun changes to reflect the new speaker. Modal verbs like can, may, must, and should undergo predictable changes to their past tense forms.

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    12.1 Reported Speech

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    This document outlines the rules for changing direct speech to indirect speech in English. It provides examples of how to change the tense and pronouns when converting statements, questions, imperatives, and modal verbs from direct to indirect speech. For statements, the tense shifts back one tense (e.g. present to past). Questions and imperatives also see pronoun changes to reflect the new speaker. Modal verbs like can, may, must, and should undergo predictable changes to their past tense forms.

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    Reported

    statements

    Direct Speech

    Indirect Speech

    simple present
    He said, I go to school every
    day.

    simple past
    He said (that) he went to school every
    day.

    simple past

    He said, I went to school every


    day.

    past perfect
    He said (that) he had gone to school
    every day.

    present perfect
    He said, I have gone to
    school.

    past perfect
    He said (that) he had gone to school.

    present progressive

    He said, I am going to school.

    past progressive
    He said (that) he was going to school.

    past progressive
    He said, I was going to
    school.

    perfect progressive
    He said (that) he had been going to
    school,

    future (will)
    He said, I will go to school
    every day.

    would + verb name


    He said (that) he would go to school
    every day.

    Questions and imperative:


    Direct Speech

    Indirect Speech

    He said, Do you go to school every


    day?
    He said, Where do you go to
    school?

    He asked me if I went to school every


    day.*
    He asked me where I went to
    school.

    He said, Go to school every day.

    He said to go to school every day.

    Modals
    Direct Speech

    Indirect Speech

    can
    could
    He said, I can go to school every day.
    He said (that) he could go to school
    every day.
    may/might
    He said, I may / might go to school
    every day.

    might
    He said (that) he might go to school
    every day.

    must / have to
    He said, I must / have to go to school
    every day.

    had to
    He said (that) he had to go to school
    every day.

    should
    He said, I should go to school every
    day.

    should
    He said (that) he should go to school
    every day.

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