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REPORTED SPEECH - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Example: • “I like your car,” he said to Mary.
    - - • tonight -> that night
        • now -> then
        • now that -> since
        • yesterday -> the day before
        • tomorrow -> the following day
        • two days -> two days
      - • This => that
        • These => those
        • Here => there
        • Come => go
    - - Past Perfect and Past Perfect Progressive: no
        change
      - Past Simple: changed to Past Perfect or
        remaining the same
      - Verb forms in time clauses remaining the same
      - Example: He said (that) she had come / came to his
        house while he was doing laundry
      - If the reported sentence is out of date, the verb form
        changes.
      - If the reported sentence is up to date, the verb form
        doesn’t change (still true)
        Example: Peter said (that) Rose had called that morning. (7
        p.m. today)
      - Not changing
        
        • Reporting verb is in present or future
        
        • The speaker expresses general truths,
        permanent states or conditions
        
        • The reported sentence deals with conditionals
        type 2 and 3, wishes or unreal past
        
        • The speaker is reporting something right after
        it is said (up to date)
        
        • If the speaker reports something which is
        believed to be untrue, the verb forms change.
  - - - Wh-questions: ask + wh-word.
        Example: I asked Elaine where she’d had lunch
      - Yes/No questions: ask + if/whether
        Example: Anna wondered if we could take photos.