Write ten sentences on reported speech
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Answer:
When we use reported speech, we are usually talking about the past (because obviously the person who spoke originally spoke in the past). The verbs therefore usually have to be in the past too.
For example:
Direct speech: I’ve lost my umbrella.
Reported speech: He said (that) he had lost his umbrella
Explanation:
When changing from direct to indirect speech, you need to change the grammar in certain ways.
Verb tense forms usually need to change. The tenses generally move backwards in this way:
Present Simple Tense into Past Simple Tense
Present Continuous Tense into Past Continuous Tense
Present Perfect Tense into Past Perfect Tense
Past Simple Tense into Past Perfect Tense
Past Continuous Tense into Past Perfect Continuous Tense
Past Perfect Tense (The tense remains unchanged)
Will into Would
Will be into Would be
Will have into Would have
Will have been into Would have been
Other Verb Form Changes in Indirect Speech
Can into Could
Could (The verb remains unchanged)
Have to into Had to
Must into Must/Had to
May into Might
Might (The verb remains unchanged)
Should (The verb remains unchanged)
1-He said he works in bank 2-She says that she likes icecream. 3- He told me that he had been to China. 4- She said that she would be using the car next Monday. 5- He said that he would be in Geneva on Friday
6-They complained that they had been waiting for an hours. 7- He explained that he was reading a book. 8-She said that she always drank coffee. 9-He said that bill had arrived on Sunday. 10-They told me that they had been living in Paris.