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REPORTED SPEECH - Coggle Diagram

- - - - 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
        Ex: “She came to my house while I was doing
        laundry,” he said.
        --> 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      - If the reported sentence is out of date, the verb form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 at the moment of speaking/
        writing)
    - - 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.