Tense Direct Speech Reported Speech; present simple: I like ice cream: She said (that) she
All these materials are written for students and teachers of English as a foreign language
He said, Im looking forward to my holidays
Feb 09, 2019 · When we use our own words to report speech, there are several things that we change: pronouns, time and place may need to change to reflect a different perspective, tense usually has to go back one tense (present becomes past) – this is called backshift
Mind the introductory sentences and backshift of tenses
Also, we can change the pronouns in the sentence to make the reported speech
Past Continuous I was walking along the Street
This is known as backshifting in reported speech, with the basic rule that a tense is shifted back to its past tense form
Direct speech: He said, “Mathematics is a science”
There are two situations where even if the reporting verb is in the past tense, the verb of the reported speech remains unchanged
Some English tenses do not backshift in reported speech
It includes examples of all tenses in affirmative, negative and interrogative as well as some time expressions changes
One can classify the Tense Changing Rules in the three Indirect speech, also known as reported speech, indirect discourse (US), or ōrātiō oblīqua (/ ə ˈ r eɪ ʃ ɪ oʊ ə ˈ b l aɪ k w ə / or / oʊ ˈ r ɑː t ɪ oʊ ɒ ˈ b l iː k w ə /), is the practice, common in all Latin historical writers, of reporting spoken or written words indirectly, using different grammatical forms
T012 - Letter to Janet - Past and Present Perfect Tense
RS008 - Reported Questions
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