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Reported Speech, Example of Reported Questions, Time Prepositions, 9B
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Reported Speech
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Tense Changes
-Reporting (Said)
-Past Simple (Would/will , can/could, Going to)
example=
-Present continuous:
"I'm watching TV" - He said he was watching TV
-Past Simple"
"I missed the concert" - He told me he had missed the concert
*notice how the reported speech statement is about another person. The person who the speech acts as the middle ground.
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Reported speech is a speech which tells you what someone said, but does not use the person's actual words.
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There are two ways to write a reported speech:
-We can repeat the words (by using quotation marks)
-Or we can buid up our own sentences
today becomes that day, last year becomes the year before, my becomes his/her, we become they.
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