THE REPORTED

SPEECH
?
 CHANGES
VERB TENSES

 SIMPLE PRESENT • SIMPLE PAST

• PRESENT CONTINUOUS • PAST CONTINUOUS

• SIMPLE PAST • PAST PERFECT

• PRESENT PERFECT • PAST PERFECT
• PAST PERFECT • PAST PERFECT
• FUTURE • CONDITIONAL
• IMPERATIVE • TO-INFINITIVE
CHANGES
PRONOUNS AND DETERMINERS

 I  HE / SHE
• YOU • I / HE / SHE
• HE / SHE / IT • HE / SHE / IT

• WE • THEY
• YOU • YOU / WE
• THEY • THEY
CHANGES
(CONT.)

 MY  HIS / HER
• YOUR • YOUR / MY / HIS / HER
• HIS / HER / ITS • HIS / HER / ITS
• OUR • THEIR
•YOUR •THEIR / YOUR / OUR
•THEIR •THEIR
CHANGES
OTHER WORDS
 HERE  THERE
• THIS • THAT
• THESE • THOSE
• NOW • THEN
• TODAY • THAT DAY
• TONIGHT • THAT NIGHT
• THE NEXT DAY / THE
• TOMORROW
FOLLOWING DAY
• YESTERDAY • THE DAY BEFORE
• NEXT WEEK • THE FOLLOWING WEEK
• LAST WEEK • THE WEEK BEFORE

• AGO • BEFORE
EXERCISES
IF I LEAVE
THE HOUSE
NOW, I WILL
NOT MEET
MR JONES.

WHAT DID SHE SAY?

SHE SAID THAT IF SHE

LEFT THE HOUSE THEN
SHE WOULD NOT MEET
MR JONES
SARAH THINKS THAT THE BIGGEST
ANIMAL IN THE WORLD
IS THE WHALE.

PETER TOLD ME THAT

SARAH THOUGHT THAT
THE BIGGEST ANIMAL
IN THE WORLD WAS
THE WHALE
STOP FIGHTING!

 HE ORDERED THEM
TO STOP FIGHTING
 “It is clear that he has
been most unwise”,
Tom told peter.
• “I like my school”, she
said.
• “They don’t know the
school rules”, he said.
• “She has published a
novel yesterday”, I
said.
 Tom told peter that it
was clear that he had
been most unwise.
• She said that she liked
her school.
• He said that they
didn’t know the school
rules.
• I said that she had
published a novel the
day before.
• “The farmers are • We said that the
facing difficult farmers were facing
problems in this difficult problems in
place.”, we said. that place.
• “We will be home • She said that they
tomorrow”, she said. would be home the
next day.
• “We have completed • They said that they
our task two days had completed their
ago”, they said. task two days before.
• “Drive fast because I • I asked him to drive
don’t want to be late”, fast because I didn’t
I asked him. want to be late.