Examples Of Reported Speech

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Reported speech What do we mean by Reported Speech? Reported Speech (also called Indirect Speech) is used to communicate what someone else said, think or believe, but without using the exact words. A few changes are necessary; often a pronoun has to be changed and the verb is usually moved back a tense, where possible. Reported speech is often also called indirect speech. 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. Example: "I'm going to school". He said he was going to school. Basic tense chart: The tenses generally move backwards in this way (the tense on…show more content…
Time and place references: Time and place references often have to change: |now |then | |today |that day | |here |there | |this |that | |this week |that week | |tomorrow |the following day | | |the next day | | |the day after | |next week |the following week | | |the next week

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