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Reported Speech

Reported speech is used to mention something that another person said or that was heard from someone else. When using reported speech, the tenses of the original direct speech need to be changed depending on the tense. For example, present simple would change to past tense, present continuous to past continuous, and future with "will" would change to "would" plus the verb. Verbs like "said" and "told" can be used to introduce reported speech, with "said" followed by "that" and "told" followed by an object pronoun. Other verbs like "describe" or "explain" can also introduce reported speech. Time expressions may need to be changed as well, and the subject should be changed to remember

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Reported Speech

Reported speech is used to mention something that another person said or that was heard from someone else. When using reported speech, the tenses of the original direct speech need to be changed depending on the tense. For example, present simple would change to past tense, present continuous to past continuous, and future with "will" would change to "would" plus the verb. Verbs like "said" and "told" can be used to introduce reported speech, with "said" followed by "that" and "told" followed by an object pronoun. Other verbs like "describe" or "explain" can also introduce reported speech. Time expressions may need to be changed as well, and the subject should be changed to remember

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REPORTED SPEECH

Use reported speech when you want to mention something that somebody else told you, or
something that you heard from another person.
Depending on the tense, we have to use other tense for the reported speech.

DIRECT EXAMPLE DIRECT


REPORTED SPEECH REPORTED SPEECH.
SPEECH TENSE SPEECH
I go to the gym every She said that she went to the
Present simple Past tense
day. gym every day.
Present Claudia is working as She told me she was working
Past continuous
continuous nurse. as nurse.
They said that they would
Future with We’ll work with
Would + verb work with handsome
will handsome doctors.
doctors.
He told me he would have
Would + have + verb I would study nursing if
Would + verb studied nursing if he could
in past participle. I could.
have.
He said he went to the
Simple past Past Perfect I went to the hospital.
hospital.
Past Past Perfect He told me he had been
I was taking vital signs.
continuous Continuous taking vital signs.
I had applied all the She said that she had applied
Past Perfect Past perfect medicines to the all the medicines to the
patients. patients.

We can use the verbs Said or Told. The verb Said in reported speech is followed by THAT and for
Told use an object pronoun (me, him, her, us, them).

There are some other verbs we use in a reported speech sentence such as: Describe, emphasize,
explain, mention, recommend, report, speculate, state or suggest.

Also, according to the sentence, you can use time expressions as Tonight, that night, yesterday,
the day before, etc.

Don’t forget to change the subject, remember you are mentioning what other person told you.

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