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TM Reported Speech Change List

The document lists the changes that are made to verb tenses and pronouns when direct speech is converted to reported or indirect speech. For verb tenses, the simple past changes to the past perfect and present tenses change to the corresponding past tense. Modal verbs also change to the past form except for would, could, might, ought to, needn't have, must have, and used to. Pronouns such as I, you, and possessive adjectives also change depending on who is speaking. Time, place and other demonstrative references are adjusted from direct to indirect speech.

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TM Reported Speech Change List

The document lists the changes that are made to verb tenses and pronouns when direct speech is converted to reported or indirect speech. For verb tenses, the simple past changes to the past perfect and present tenses change to the corresponding past tense. Modal verbs also change to the past form except for would, could, might, ought to, needn't have, must have, and used to. Pronouns such as I, you, and possessive adjectives also change depending on who is speaking. Time, place and other demonstrative references are adjusted from direct to indirect speech.

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Reported speech tense change list

DIRECT SPEECH REPORTED SPEECH


Simple Present Simple Past
"I live in Paris." He said he lived in Paris.
Present Continuous Past Continuous
"I'm not feeling well." He said he wasn't feeling well.
Present Perfect Past Perfect
"I've never been there." He said he had never been there.
Present Perfect Continuous Past Perfect Continuous
"She's been working." He said she had been working
Simple Past Past Perfect
"I saw my mother." He said he had seen his mother.
Future Conditional
"There will be a problem." He said there would be a problem.
Future Continuous Conditional Continuous
"I'll be leaving soon." He said he would be leaving soon.
MODALS
Present Modals Past Modals
"I will go." He said he would go.
"I can swim." He said he could swim.
"It may rain." He said it might rain.
"I must go to the bank." He said he had to go to the bank.
"I needn't phone her." He said he didn't need to phone her.
THE FOLLOWING MODAL VERBS DO NOT CHANGE:
Would, could, might, ought to, needn't have, must have, used to
First Conditional Second Conditional
"I'll go if they go." He said he would go if they went.

Pronouns
I/my/mine She/her/hers or he/his/his
She said “I get up at 8 o’clock” She said that she got up at 8 o’clock
You/your/yours I/my/mine
“You look tired”, she said She said that I looked tired

Other changes
Direct speech Indirect speech
This That
Here There
Today That day
Yesterday The day before
Tomorrow The next day/the following day
Tonight That night
Tomorrow morning The following morning
Yesterday afternoon The previous afternoon
Next week/month/year The following week/month/year
Last week/month/year The previous week/month/year
A week/month/year ago A week/month/year before

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