REPORTED SPEECH -------------------------- DIRECT SPEECH

(THEY) - The Mayor wants to have a meeting today. - they said, “The Mayor wants to have a
meeting today”

The Mayor wanted to have a meeting yesterday - They said, “The Mayor wanted to have a
meeting yesterday”

(THEY) - We have a conversation at this moment - THEY SAID, “THEY HAVE A CONVERSATION
AT THIS MOMENT”

(SHE) - The girl studies Information Technology - SHE SAID, “THE GIRL STUDIES
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY”

(THEY) - They like to go out frequently - THEY SAID, “THEY LIKE TO GO OUT FREQUENTLY”

( Kamala) – She said “She came here at the age of nineteen”

Kamala said “All the women who have worked to secure and
protect the right to vote over a century”

INDIRECT SPEECH

(HE) - Our people need more support from the government

Indirect speech - HE SAID THAT HIS PEOPLE NEEDED MORE SUPPORT FROM THE GOVERNMENT

(THEY) - The community is working hard on the project -

*Indirect speech - THEY SAID THAT THE COMMUNITY WAS WORKING HARD ON THAT PROJECT

(HE / SHE) - he was doing the homework last night

*Indirect speech – HE SAID THAT HE HAD BEEN DOING THE HOMEWORK LAST NIGHT

(SHE / HE) - I went to the park last Sunday

*Indirect speech - HE SAID THAT HE HAD GONE TO THE PARK LAST SUNDAY

(He/she) - She was sick

*Indirect speech - he said that she had been sick

(THEY) - We have studied a lot -

*Indirect speech - THEY SAID THAT THEY HAD STUDIED A LOT

(THEY) - We will overcome this situation

Indirect speech - THEY SAID THAT THEY WOULD OVERCOME THIS SITUATION

When she came here from India at the age of nineteen, she maybe didn’t quite imagine this
moment.

*Indirect speech – she said that her mother when had come from India at the age of nineteen, she
maybe, hadn’t quite imagined that moment.

Women who fought and sacrificed so much, for equality, liberty, and justice for all

*indirect speech – she that said that the women who had fought and sacrificed so much, for
equality, liberty, and justice for all

I’m thinking about her and about the generation of women who throughout our nation’s history
have paved the way for this moment

Indirect speech - - She said that she had been thinking in her mother and all the generation of
women who throughout their nation’s history had paved the way for that moment

PRESENT CONTINOUS - PAST CONTINOUS

He + aux be (is/are/am) + verb_ing + compl He + aux be (was/were)+verb__ing+c

The community is working hard on the project - The community was working hard on the Proj.

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Present perfect - Past perfect

I + aux have/has + verb (past participle) + compl I + aux had + verb (past participle) +
complement

We have studied a lot - we had studied a lot