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Reported Speech Exercise

The document provides a table for converting direct speech into reported speech, detailing various tenses and their transformations. It includes examples for Present Simple, Past Continuous, Be going to future, Present Perfect, Past Simple, Past Perfect, and several modal verbs. The table serves as a guide for understanding how to change the tense and structure when reporting speech.

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Reported Speech Exercise

The document provides a table for converting direct speech into reported speech, detailing various tenses and their transformations. It includes examples for Present Simple, Past Continuous, Be going to future, Present Perfect, Past Simple, Past Perfect, and several modal verbs. The table serves as a guide for understanding how to change the tense and structure when reporting speech.

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Reported Speech

Fill in the blanks in the table below.

Original sentence Tense Reported sentence Tense


I play football. Present Simple He said (that) he Past Simple
played football.

I am playing Past Continuous


football.

Be going to future Was were going to


+ infinitive

Present Perfect He said (that) he


had played football.

Past Simple Past Perfect

I was playing Past Perfect


football. Continuous

Past Perfect He said (that) he


had played football.

I would play 'would' modal would


football.
‘will' modal He said (that) he
would play
football.
I can play football. He said (that) he
could play football.

I must play had to


football.

'shall' modal would

'could' modal

'should' modal

'might' modal

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