Reported Speech

Reported Speech

1. TENSE CHANGES

   • Future Tenses
     • will: would
     • will be+ ing: would be +ing
     • will have done: would have done
     • is going to do : was going to do
   • Present tenses
     • listen: listened
     • is cooking: was cooking
     • is: was/ are:were
   • Past tenses
     • watched: had watched
     • was watching: had been watching
     • has driven: had driven
     • had written: had written
   • Modal verbs
     • may: might
     • can: could
     • must/have to: had to
     • should: should
     • would: would

2. EXPRESSIONS

   • these : those
   • here: there
   • yesterday: the day before/ the previous day
   • today: that day
   • Tomorrow: the next day/ the following day
   • this: that
   • now: then

3. QUESTIONS

   • Yes/ No questions
     • ask+ if/whether+sentence
       • "Does she live here?": He asked me if she lived there
   • Information Questions
     • ask+ question word+ sentence
       • "Where do you live?: She asked where I lived

4. COMMANDS

   • tell + infinitive ( to+ verb)
     • "Drive my car!" She told me to drive her car
   • tell + infinitive (not to+ verb)
     • "Don't walk so fast!" : He told me not to walk so fast

5. STATEMENTS

   • say that + sentence
     • "I speak English": She said that she spoke English