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#Report speech

📕So when we report someone’s words we can do it in two ways.

✅ We can use direct speech with quotation marks

👉 (  "I work in a bank" )

or we can use reported speech👉 (He said he worked in a bank.)

✅In reported speech the tenses, word-order and pronouns may be different from those in the original sentence.

📕📘We can use all tenses👇👇

  

✅Direct speech: “I travel a lot in my job”

✅ Reported speech: He said that he travelled a lot in his job.

✅The present simple tense👇

 (I travel) usually changes to the past simple

✅ (he travelled) in reported speech.

✅Direct speech: “Be quiet. The baby’s sleeping.”

✅ Reported speech: She told me to be quiet because the baby was sleeping.

👉The present continuous usually changes to the past continuous.

✅I work in Italy” 

✅Reported speech: He told me that he works in Italy.

It isn’t always necessary to change the tense. If something is still true now – he still works in Italy – we can use the present simple in the reported sentence.

✅Past simple and past continuous tenses

✅Direct speech: We lived in China for 5 years.

✅Reported speech: She told me they had lived in China for 5 years.

✅The past simple tense 

(we lived) usually changes to the past perfect (they had lived) in reported speech.

✅Direct speech: I was walking down the road when I saw the accident.

✅ Reported speech:

 He told me he’d been walking down the road when he’d seen the accident.

📕The past continuous usually changes to the past perfect continuous.

📘Perfect tenses

📕📘Direct speech:

 “They’ve always been very kind to me.

✅ Reported speech: She said they’d always been very kind to her.

📕The present perfect tense (have always been) usually changes to the past perfect tense (had always been).

📕Direct speech: 

✅They had already eaten when I arrived.

📘 Reported speech: He said they’d already eaten when he’d arrived.

📕The past perfect tense does not change in reported speech.

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