Changing the way you learn

Reported Speech

TENSE CHANGES
1. Future Tenses
  1. will: would
  2. will be+ ing: would be +ing
  3. will have done: would have done
  4. is going to do : was going to do
2. Present tenses
  1. listen: listened
  2. is cooking: was cooking
  3. is: was/ are:were
3. Past tenses
  1. watched: had watched
  2. was watching: had been watching
  3. has driven: had driven
  4. had written: had written
4. Modal verbs
  1. may: might
  2. can: could
  3. must/have to: had to
  4. should: should
  5. would: would
EXPRESSIONS
1. these : those
2. here: there
3. yesterday: the day before/ the previous day
4. today: that day
5. Tomorrow: the next day/ the following day
6. this: that
7. now: then
QUESTIONS
1. Yes/ No questions
  1. ask+ if/whether+sentence
    1. "Does she live here?": He asked me if she lived there
2. Information Questions
  1. ask+ question word+ sentence
    1. "Where do you live?: She asked where I lived
COMMANDS
1. tell + infinitive ( to+ verb)
  1. "Drive my car!" She told me to drive her car
2. tell + infinitive (not to+ verb)
  1. "Don't walk so fast!" : He told me not to walk so fast
STATEMENTS
1. say that + sentence
  1. "I speak English": She said that she spoke English

Reported Speech

	Created by Marisa Fidalgo about 9 years ago