Reported speech with verb tenses changes Examples 1
Reported speech with verb tenses changes
Examples: 1. ‘ They are fantastic’ , we agreed. 2. We agreed that they were fantastic. 3. ‘Science is helping people’ , he said. 4. He said that science was helping people. 5. ‘ t looks like a normal arm’ , he said. 6. He said that it looked like a normal arm. 7 - ‘They accepted their disabilities in the past’ , he said 8 - he said that they had accepted their disabilities in the past
Examples: 9. It ‘will continue’, he said 10 - He said that it would continue 11 - It ‘can understand’ , he said 12 - He said that it could understand 13 - ‘Disabled athletes have recently started using artificial legs’, we said 14 - We said that disabled athletes had recently started using artificial legs.
*CHANGE TENSES* ** Present Simple Past Simple Verb verb+s Verb 2 ** Present continuous Past continuous is+writing are+writing was+writing were+writing
** Past simple Past perfect verb 2 had +verb 3 ** present past is, am are will can was were would could
**Present perfect Past perfect Hashave+V 3 Had + V 3 ** Present Past must, have to , has to Had to may might
**Change in to reported speech : = 1. “I don’t want to wear the rain coat out side “, the girl says … 2. “Could you tell me the time? ” , Ali asks me. . . 3. “Don’t make any noise: , asks students… the teacher 4. “Is every day life hard ? ” , the interviewer asks. .
5. “Why are you late ? ” Nour asks Leena 6. “Do you think it will happen? ” Jenan asks him 7. “I never tell a lie “ Ali says 8. “How can I help you ? ” Jenan asks Samer 9. “Would you like to visit England ? ” Jenny invites Basim
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