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Reported Speech - Coggle Diagram
Reported Speech
Reporting Verbs
Say
Tell
Ask
Advise
Agree
Apologise
Decide
Encourage
Explain
Insist
Promise
Recommend
Remind
Suggest
Warn
Examples
He said: I am happy
He said that he was happy.
He said: I will open the door
He said that he would open the door
I should go home
He said he should go home
I might be late
She said that she might be late.
I must study at the weekend.
She said she had to study at the weekend.
I had taken English lessons before.
She said that she had taken English lessons before.
Grammar
For create it we use a reporting verb and then we put it in the tens that the sentence have to have.