Do you have tobackshiftthe tenses? Do you have to changeexpressions of time and place? Tense changes when using reported speech: Reporting verbs: We can usesayandtellto report statements in direct speech. Other reporting verbs: add, admit, advise, agree, announce, answer, ask, claim, comment...
Questions in indirect speech Direct : He said, “ Where is he going?” Indirect : He asked where she was going. A Tenses, pronouns and possessive adjectives, and adverbs of time and place change in statements. The interrogative form of the verb changes to the affirmative form The question ...
FORM When we use the reported speech, we are usually talking about the past. So verbs usually change to the Past in the reported speech. Tom said he was feeling ill. We don’t change the verb tense if the introducing verb is in the Simple Present, Present Perfect or Future. He has j...
revision on dictionary - ~verb_tenses now ~verb_bits and dictionary rebuilt along with LIVEDATA/ENGLISH revisionsversion 4.00setting position reference and direction changed from @_0++ to @_0+ and same for -- and you can now use @_0_i (inclusive) to make the _0 location be the next th...
Reported speech with tense changes Daniel said,' I want to read a detective story.' 侦探故事 Daniel said that he wanted to read a detective story. 主句中的引述动词为过去式时,引语中的时态要变化 Murder in Valley Town Last night, the body of a young man was found in the doorway of a cl...