indirect speech backshift

In indirect speech reporting verbs are used quite often. For example: to say, to tell, to answer,...

• Right

• Wrong

Bi said: "I went to Nhi's party yesterday"

• Bi said that I had gone to Nhi's party the day before.

• Bi said that she had gone to Nhi's party the day before.

• Bi said that she went to Nhi's party the day before.

• Bi said that she had gone to Nhi's party yesterday.

In transferring direct into indirect speech, which features have been changed?

• The Subject

• The Content of the sentence

• The Object

• The Time

• The Tense

Change this sentence into direct speech:

'Susan told me to sit down'.

• Susan told: "you sit down"

• "Sit down" Susan told me.

• Susan said: "Please, sit down"

• Susan said: "You sit down"

Change into indirect speech: She says: "The sun rises on the East"

• She says that the sun rose on the East.

• She said that the sun rose on the East.

• She says that the sun rises on the East.

• She said that the sun rises on the East.

"If I had run, I could have caught the bus" He said.

• He said that If he ran, he could catch the bus.

• He said that he could have caught the bus if he ran

• He said that If he had run, he could have caught the bus.

• He said that If I had run, I could have caught the bus.

"If I were you, I would do this game twice"

• He told me that if he were me, he would do that game twice.

• He told me if he had been me, he would have done that game twice.

• If he were me, I would have done that game twice, he told me.

• He told me that if he had been me, he would do that game twice.

"Let's eat out tomorrow" She said

• She said that we could eat out the next day.

• She suggested that we should eat out the next day.

• She suggested eating out tomorrow.

• She suggested that we ate out the next day.

"I don't bring enough money now" she said.

• She told me not to bring enough money now.

• She told me that she don't bring enough money then.

• She told me that she didn't bring enough money then.

• She said she didn't bring enough money.

Which one is NOT changed from direct to indirect speech?

• Pronouns

• Tense

• Subject of the introductory clause

• Place