Reported Speech Online Exercise
English With Simo
What is Reported Speech
🔵Direct Speech is what a person says directly and to indicate that, we put their words between quotes as in the following example:
Examples: "I like ice-cream" Lissa said.
🔵Indirect speech is quoting or repeating what the person said exactly as in the following example:
Example: Lissa said that she liked ice-cream.
From these examples, you notice that there is a change in the tense of the verb. That is to say, in the direct speech the verb (like) is in simple present, while in the indirect speech, it has changed to (liked) which is the simple past.
In reported speech there are major changes that occur not only in the tense of verbs, but also in expressions of time and place as well as pronouns.
Changes In Tenses of Verbs
| Reported Speech Tense Changes | |||
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Simple Present |
Simple Past | "I work in this place" He said | He said that he worked in that place |
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Simple Past |
Past perfect | "I worked in this place" | He said that he had worked in that place |
|
Present continuous |
Past continuous | "I am working in this place" He said | He said that he was working in that place |
|
Past continuous |
Past perfect continuous | "I was working in this place" She said | She said that she had been working in that place |
|
Present Perfect |
Past perfect | "I have worked in this place" He said | He said that he had worked in that place |
|
Past perfect |
Past perfected | "I had worked in that place" He said | He said that he had worked in that place |
|
Will |
Would | "I will work in this place" She said | She said that she would work in that place |
|
Can |
Could | "I can work in this place" He said | He said that he could work in that place |
|
May |
Might | "I may work in this place" He said | He said that he might work in that place |
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Must |
Had to | "I must finish this work" He said | He said that he had to finish that work. |
Changes In Time and Place Expressions
| Changes In Time And Place Expressions | |
| Here | There |
| Now | Then |
| Today | That day |
| Tomorrow | The following day |
| Yesterday | The day before |
| Next | The following |
| Last | The previous |
| This | That |
| These | Those |
| Ago | Before |
Reported Speech Exercise
Rewrite the following sentences as suggested
| 1) "I live in this place" Jack said. |
| → Jack said (that) . |
| 2) "I worked in this company last year" Alex said. |
| → Alex said (that) . |
| 3) "I am playing video games now" My brother said. |
| → My brother said (that) . |
| 4) "I have finished the exercise" The student said. |
| → The student said (that) . |
| 5) "I will write these lessons next week" Leila said. |
| → Leila said (that) . |
| 6) "I can speak different languages" The tourist said. |
| → The tourist said (that) . |
| 7) "I must feed my cat" Veronica said. |
| → Veronica said (that) . |
| 9) "We may come to the party next week" My friends said. |
| → My friends said (that) . |
| 10) "I had completed my project before" The businessman said. |
| → The businessman said (that) . |
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