Reported Speech By English With Simo
Second Year Baccalaureate Classes

Direct Speech: What someone said directly.
Indirect Speech: We quote what someone said in the past.
Direct Speech and Indirect Speech | |
Direct Speech |
Indirect Speech |
"I play football" Jack Said. |
Jack said that he played football. |
"I played football" Jack Said. |
Jack said that he had played football. |
"I am playing football" Jack Said. |
Jack said that he was playing football. |
Direct Speech |
Indirect Speech |
1. Simple present (play) |
Simple Past (played) |
2. Simple past (played) |
Past perfect (had played) |
3. Present continuous (is/are playing) |
Past continuous (was/were playing) |
4. Past continuous (was/ were playing) |
Past perfect continuous (had been playing) |
5. Present perfect (has/have played) |
Past perfect (had played) |
6. Past perfect (had played) |
Past perfect (had played) |
7. Simple future (will play) |
Conditional (would play) |
8. Can (can play) |
Could (could play) |
9. May (may play) |
Might (might play) |
10. Must (must play) |
Had to (had to play) |
11. be going to (is/are going to play) |
Was/were going to (was/were going to play) |
🔴Read the following examples carefully and pay attention to tense changes.
➡️He said that he wanted to drink some coffee.
2. "I tried to call you yesterday" Lena said.
➡️Lena said that she had tried to call me the day before.
3. "I am cleaning the room now" James said.
➡️James said that he was cleaning the room then.
4. "I will bring you my book tomorrow" She said.
➡️She said that she would bring me her book the following day.
5. "I can speak different languages" The man said.
➡️The man said that he could speak different languages.
🔴Indirect speech: Ali said that he was living in that place then.
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Direct Speech |
Indirect Speech |
Now |
Then |
Here |
There |
Today |
That day |
Yesterday |
The previous day |
Tomorrow |
The following day |
Next |
The following |
Last |
The previous |
This |
That |
These |
Those |
Ago |
Before |
🔴Read the following examples carefully and pay attention to tense changes.
➡️The man said he was working there.
2. "I will see you tomorrow" she said.
➡️She said that she would see me the following day.
3. "I worked in this place last week" he said.
➡️He said that he had worked in that place the previous week.
4. "I have completed three exercises today" students said.
➡️Students said that they had completed three exercises that day.
5. "I am starting a new project next week" He told me.
➡️He told me that he was starting a project the following week.
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➡️Amina said that she liked her dog so much.
🔴Simple past: "I worked in this company for a very long time" The man said.
➡️The man said that he had worked in that company for a very long time.
🔴Simple Future: "My friend will come to the party next week" Jasmine said.
➡️Jasmine said that he friend would come to the party the following week.
🔴Present continuous: "I am watching the television now" My father said.
➡️My father said that he was watching television then.
🔴Past continuous: "I was cooking dinner for the guests" My mom said.
➡️My mom said that she had been cooking dinner for the guests.
🔴Present perfect: "I have finished all the work in this company" The man said.
➡️The main said that he had finished all the work in that company.
🔴Past perfect: "I had never seen an elephant before" My son stated.
➡️My son stated that he had never seen an elephant before.
🔴Modal can: "I can fix this computer in five minutes" the programmer said.
➡️The programmer said that he could fix that computer in five minutes.
🔴Modal may: "I may come visit you next week" my friend told me.
➡️My friend told me that he might come visit me the following week.
🔴Be going to: "My friend is going to bring a pizza from the mall" Jack said.
➡️Jack said that his friend was going to bring a pizza from the mall.
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