🔶 REPORTED SPEECH 🔶


Present simple, present continuous and present perfect


♦️ When we backshift, present simple changes to past simple, present continuous changes to past continuous and present perfect changes to past perfect.

✨ I travel a lot in my job.
‘Jamila said that she travelled a lot in her job.’

✨ The baby is sleeping .
‘He told me the baby was sleeping.’

✨ I have hurt my leg.
‘She said she had hurt her leg.’



♦️ Pronouns, demonstratives and adverbs of time and place if they are no longer accurate, change in indirect speech.


🔹these changes to those,

🔸now changes to then,

🔹yesterday changes to the day before,

🔸tomorrow changes to the next/following day,

🔹ago changes to before.


✨ This is my house
➖He said this was his house. [You are currently in front of the house.]
➖He said that was his house. [You are not currently in front of the house.]



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