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    This document discusses how to report speech from direct to indirect speech. It explains that when reporting speech: 1) Present tenses become past tenses (simple present becomes simple past, present continuous becomes past continuous). 2) Time and place adverbs like here, now, today are changed to reflect the past tense (today becomes that day, here becomes there). 3) Modal verbs like will, may, can are changed to would, might, could to reflect reporting something that was said rather than happening now.

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    Reported Speech

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    This document discusses how to report speech from direct to indirect speech. It explains that when reporting speech: 1) Present tenses become past tenses (simple present becomes simple past, present continuous becomes past continuous). 2) Time and place adverbs like here, now, today are changed to reflect the past tense (today becomes that day, here becomes there). 3) Modal verbs like will, may, can are changed to would, might, could to reflect reporting something that was said rather than happening now.

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    Reported Speech: Simple Present and Simple Past

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    HéctorTom
    This document discusses how to report speech from direct to indirect speech. It explains that when reporting speech: 1) Present tenses become past tenses (simple present becomes simple past, present continuous becomes past continuous). 2) Time and place adverbs like here, now, today are changed to reflect the past tense (today becomes that day, here becomes there). 3) Modal verbs like will, may, can are changed to would, might, could to reflect reporting something that was said rather than happening now.

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    REPORTED

    SPEECH
    Part 1
    Simple Present and Simple past.
    Let’s start with the basis
    ◦ Sometimes someone says a sentence, for example "I'm going to
    ◦ What is it?
    the cinema tonight". Later, maybe we want to tell someone else
    what the first person said.
    Imagine that…

    I like Ice cream


    So… What do we need to
    know?
    Direct Speech Reported Speech
    Simple Present Simple Past
    Simple Past Simple past or Past Perfect

    Verbs that might cause some trouble


    Will Would
    May Might
    Can Could
    Should Should
    Must Must
    Time expressions
    Today That day
    Yesterday The day before
    This that
    here there
    Tomorrow The following day

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