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Direct and Reported Speech Guide

The document compares direct and reported speech by providing examples of how tense, time expressions, and pronouns are changed when moving from direct to reported speech. It shows direct speech examples in 8 tenses and their reported speech equivalents, with examples of common time expression and pronoun changes.

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Direct and Reported Speech Guide

The document compares direct and reported speech by providing examples of how tense, time expressions, and pronouns are changed when moving from direct to reported speech. It shows direct speech examples in 8 tenses and their reported speech equivalents, with examples of common time expression and pronoun changes.

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DIRECT SPEECH REPORTED SPEECH

PRESENT SIMPLE PAST SIMPLE


⑦ golgoes ④ wert
① don't / doesrítgo ② didn't go
doldoes ? did ? *
. . .

go . . -

go

PRESENT CONTINUOUS PAST CONTINUOUS


① amlislaregoing ⑦ waslweregoing
① amnotlisritlareítgoing ⑦ wasrítlwereítgoing
wasiwere *
amlislare . . .

going ? . . .

going?

PAST SIMPLE PAST PERFECT


⑦ Went ⑦ had gore
① didn't ① hadrítgone
go
did ? had ? *
. . .

go . . .

gane

FUTURE SIMPLE CONDITIONAL


⑦ Will go ⑦ would
go
① ①
worítgo wouldrítgo
will ? would ? *
. . .

go . . .

go

CAN COULD
⑦ can go ④ could
go
① carítgo ① couldítgo
can ? could ? *
. . .

go . . .

go
?⃝
?⃝
?⃝
?⃝
?⃝
?⃝
?⃝
?⃝
?⃝
?⃝
PRESENT SIMPLE
"
I Football
Alejandro :
play with
my Friends
"

here this after noon .

Alejandro said / told me ( that) he played Football


there with his Friends that afternoon .

PRESENT CONTINUOUS
" "

Daniela : She is
eating pizza right now .

Daniela said / told me ( that ) she was


eating

pizza at that moment / then .

PAST SIMPLE
"
"
Noa : We didn't Shopping yesterday
go .

Noa said / told me (that) they hadrít


gore

Shopping the day before / the previas day .


FUTURE SIMPLE
"

I'll
"
Arthur : Fly a
plane ir two years tiene .

Arthur said / told me (that) he would fly


tuvo years ti me
a
plan e ir .

CAN

" "

Laura : I by this tonorrow


can
jacket .

Laura said / told me that she could boy


that the / the next
jacket following day day .
TIME EXPRESSIONS CHANGES

now then /at that moment

toda, that day

[Link]
day
Lastweek theweekbefre / thepreviousweek
next week the next / following Week

thislthese that / those

here there

subject s

pos .
adj .

pronouns

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