Reported speech

Tense conversion table:

Active voice

Reported voice

Present simple/*continuous
Past simple/continuous
Future/continuous
Conditional/continuous
Present perfect/continuous
Past Perfect/continuous

Past simple/continuous
Past perfect/continuous
Conditional/continuous
Conditional perfect/continuous
Past perfect/continuous
Past perfect/continuous

*Continuous tenses have the main verb or nucleus in the ing form i. e. :
going, reading, etc.
Adverb conversion table:

Active voice

Reported voice

Here
Now
Yesterday
Tomorrow

There
Then
The day before
The following day

Determiner conversion table:

Active voice

Reported voice

This [singular]
That [singular]
These [plural]
Those [plural]
You [subjective pronoun: singular or He/she or they [subjective pronoun]
plural]
You [objective pronoun: singular or (to) him/her or them [objective
plural]
pronoun]
Yours [possessive pronoun]
His/hers
or theirs [possessive
pronoun]
Your [possessive adjective]
His/her
or
their
[possessive
adjective]
Examples:

Active voice

Reported voice

You bought me a new TV.

He/she had bought me a new TV.
He would wait right here for you [a He would have waited right there
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woman].
I will return tomorrow.

for her.
I would return the following day.

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Exercises:

1. Tenses.
1.a. Conjugate the verb in the following sentence into all the seven tenses
without reporting the pronouns and the adverbs:
Michael cleans his car on Sundays.
1.b. Report the following sentences:
I. I take the bus everyday to come here.
II. She wouldnt even consider thinking about this.
III. They are watching TV now.
IV. Are you [male] forgiving me?
V. She knows they are lying about the theft of these cars.
VI. He has never told the truth.
VII. It died yesterday. The poor thing wouldnt fight to stay alive.
VIII. Youll forget your purse here again.
IX. This is the ninth sentence that I have written.
I should have studied more or I wouldnt have to do this now.
1.c. Take all the sentences from 1.a and report them.
2. Production: write a five-line paragraph reporting your daily routine
today as if you were retelling tomorrow what happened today.

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