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    Reported Speech/Indirect Speech: Introductory Verbs: Say, Tell, Ask

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    This document discusses reported or indirect speech. It provides examples of how tenses change when converting direct to reported speech, such as present simple becoming past simple. It also discusses how modal verbs and other words like pronouns and adverbs change. Questions are reported by putting the question word first followed by the subject and verb. Introductory verbs that introduce reported speech like "say" and "tell" are explained, along with exceptions where tenses do not change in reported speech.

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    This document discusses reported or indirect speech. It provides examples of how tenses change when converting direct to reported speech, such as present simple becoming past simple. It also discusses how modal verbs and other words like pronouns and adverbs change. Questions are reported by putting the question word first followed by the subject and verb. Introductory verbs that introduce reported speech like "say" and "tell" are explained, along with exceptions where tenses do not change in reported speech.

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    Reported Speech/Indirect Speech

    Introductory verbs: say, tell, ask

    Say smth to sb

    D.O. I.O.

    Tell/ask sb smth

    I.O. D.O.

    Tense changes:

     Present Simple- Past Simple


    “Mark doesn’t live here anymore” she said.
    She said (that) Mark didn’t live there anymore.
     Present Continuous- Past Continuous
    “We are going to the cinema” they said.
    They said that they were going to the cinema.
     Present Perfect Simple- Past Perfect Simple
    “I have never been there before” she told us.
    She told us that she had never been there before.
     Past Simple- Past Perfect simple
    “I won the match” he said.
    He said that he had won the match.
     Past Continuous- Past Perfect Continuous
    “Mary was washing the dishes when you called” Tara told Peter.
    Tara told Peter that Mary had been washing the dishes when he had called.
     Future –Future in the Past (will-would)
    “She will definitely win the competition this year” the coach told the fans.
    The coach told the fans that she would definitely win the competition that year.
    “We will be travelling to Egypt for the summer holiday” the Smiths’ told their neighbours.
    The Smiths’ told their neighbours that they would be travelling to Egypt for the summer holiday.
    “She will have spoken to the authorities by the time you get there” they said.
    They said that she would have spoken to the authorities by the time I got there.
    “Mark will have been working in this office for five years now” he said.
    He said that Mark would have been working in that office for five years.
    Modals change as follows: Other changes:
    Can -> could Here -> there
    May -> might Tonight -> that night
    Shall -> should Today -> that day
    Must -> had to This -> that
    These -> those
    Now -> then
    Yesterday -> the day before
    Last night/week/month/year -> the previous night/week/…
    Ago -> before

    Reporting questions

    “Where do you live?” he asked me.

    Question word

    He asked me where I lived.

    QW + S+ vb

    Could you tell me…../I would like to know… where you live?

    Tenses do not change in Reported Speech when:

     The reporting verb is in the Present, Future and Present Perfect.


     We report general truths and laws of nature
     We report conditionals (type 2, type 3) and wishes.
     We report something immediately after it was said.
    Special introductory verbs:

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