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Understanding Reported Speech Rules

Reported speech, or indirect speech, is used to convey what someone else has said without quoting their exact words. It involves changing the tense of the original statement, such as converting simple present to simple past and present progressive to past progressive. The document provides examples of these transformations and encourages practice.

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Understanding Reported Speech Rules

Reported speech, or indirect speech, is used to convey what someone else has said without quoting their exact words. It involves changing the tense of the original statement, such as converting simple present to simple past and present progressive to past progressive. The document provides examples of these transformations and encourages practice.

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Reported speech

3 R D L E V E L .
Reported speech.
When do we use reported speech? Sometimes someone
says a sentence, for example "I'm going to the cinema
tonight". Later, maybe we want to tell someone else what
the first person said.
Reported speech, also known as indirect speech, is a way
to tell someone what another person said without using
their exact words. It's like summarizing what someone said.
REPORTED SPEECH

• Simple present (I like ice cream)-----------→ Simple past (she said (that) she liked icre cream)

• Simple past (I saw my ex yesterday)------→ Past perfect (She said (that) she had seen her ex)

• Present progressive(I am living in Colima) → Past progressive(He said (that) he was living…)

• Will (I will see you later) ---------------------→ Would (she said (that) she would see me later)

• Present perfect (She has written 1 letter) -→ Past perfect (She said (that) she had written…)
Let’s practice:

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