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Reported Speech - Coggle Diagram
Reported Speech
Questions
Direct speech: we inverse the subject and the verb.
Reported speech: keep order fo a statement and do not iverse the subject and the verb-
Yes or no answer= if or whether
MUST
have to be use in two situations:
Negative sentence (stay as musn't ins reported and direct speech)
Deduction
Modal verbs:
-Could
-Should
-Would
-Might
-Ought to
-Used to
DON'T change when they are reported in a LATER TIME.
Time and place reference
Yesterday= the day before
Today= that day
Tomorrow= the next/ the following day
Next week= the following week
Now= then
Here= there
This= that
Direct speech:
what the person actually said.
Reported speech:
reporting what the person said.
It is often used to summarise what someone says.
Communicate the message of what was actually said in a more concise manner.
Present simple= past simple
Present continuous= past continuous
That
is optional
Past simple= past perfect
Present perfect= past perfect
Past perfect doesn't change
Will= would
Can= could
May= might
Must= had to
Say something/ tell somebody