Reported Speech:

• Introductory sentence in the Simple Present → Susan says (that)* Mary works in an office.

• Introductory sentence in the Simple Past → Susan said (that)* Mary worked in an office.

Change of persons/pronouns

• Direct Speech → Susan: “I work in an office.”

• Reported Speech → Susan said (that)* she worked in an office.

Backshift of tenses

• Direct Speech → Peter: “I work in the garden.”

• Reported Speech → Peter said (that)* he worked in the garden.

Direct Speech	Reported Speech
Simple forms
Simple Present	Simple Past
Simple Past	Past Perfect
Present Perfect
Past Perfect
will	would
Progressive forms
am/are/is	was/were
was/were	had been
has been
had been

Conversion of expressions of time and place

• Direct Speech → Peter: “I worked in the garden yesterday.”

• Reported Speech → Peter said (that) he had worked in the garden the day before.

Direct Speech	Reported Speech
this evening	that evening
today/this day	that day
these days	those days
now	then
a week ago	a week before
last weekend	the weekend before / the previous weekend
next week	the following week
tomorrow	the next/following day
here	there

PRACTISE HERE reported speech: Changes; changes, tenses; all.