Direct Speech |
Indirect Speech |
Present simple
He said, “ I watch TV everyday.”
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Past simple
He said (that) he watched TV everyday. |
Present continuous
He said, “I am watching TV this week.”
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Past continuous
He said that he was watching TV that week. |
Past simple
He said, “ I watched TV yesterday.”
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Past perfect
He said that he had watched TV the day before. |
Past continuous
He said, “ I was watching TV last week.”
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Past perfect continuous
He said that he had been watching the week before. |
Present perfect
He said , “ I have watched TV today” |
Past perfect
He said that he had watched TV that day. |
Present perfect continuous
He said, “I have been watching TV.” |
Past perfect continuous
He said that he had been watching TV. |
Future
He said, “He will watch TV tomorrow.” |
Conditional
He said that he would watch TV the following day. |
Future continuous
He said ,” He will be watching TV tomorrow .” |
Conditional continuous
He said that he would be watching TV the next day. |
Conditional
He said ,” He would watch TV.” |
Conditional
He said that he would watch TV. |
Conditional type 1
He said,” If I have money, I will travel abroad.” |
Conditional type 2
He said that he had money , he would travel abroad. |
Conditional type 2
He said ,”If I had money, I would travel abroad .” |
Conditional type 2
He said if he had money, he would travel abroad. |
Conditional type 3
He said ,” If I had had money , I would have travelled abroad.” |
Conditional type 3
He said if he had had money, he would have travelled abroad. |
Modals
He said , “ He can watch TV.”
He said, “ He may watch TV.”
He said , “ He might watch TV.”
He said , “ He must watch TV.”
He said , “ He has to watch TV.”
He said , “ He should watch TV.”
He said , “ He ought to watch TV.”
He said, “He used to watch TV.”
He said, “He could watch TV.” |
He said that he could watch TV.
He said that he might watch TV.
He said that he might watch TV.
He said that he had to watch TV.
He said that he had to watch TV.
He said that he should watch TV.
He said that he ought to watch TV.
He said that he used watch TV.
He said that he could watch TV. |
Other words
Today
Yesterday
The day before yesterday
Tomorrow
The day after tomorrow
Next week/year…
Last week/ year …
A year /week ago
Here |
That day
The day before/the previous day
Two days before
The following day
In two days time
The following week/year…
The previous week/year…
A year before /the previous year
There
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Simple Question
He said, “ do you watch TV?”
He said, “ Are you watching TV?”
He said, “ Have you watched TV?”
He said, “ are you my teacher?”
He said, “ Have you ever watched TV?” |
He asked me if I watched TV.
He asked me if I watching TV.
He asked me if I had watched TV.
He asked me if I was new teacher.
He asked me if I had ever watched TV.
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Wh-question
He said ,”What do you watch ?”
He said ,” What are you watching?”
He said ,”What were you watching ?”
He said ,”when do you watch TV ?”
He said ,”Where do you watch TV ?”
He said ,”Why do you watch TV ?”
He said ,”How did do you watch TV ?” |
He asked what I watched.
He asked what I was watching.
He asked what I had been watching.
He asked when I watched TV.
He asked where I watched TV.
He asked why I watched TV.
He asked how I had watched TV. |
General facts
He said ,” The sky is blue” |
He said that the sky is blue. |
