Reported Speech

We use reported speech to:

• talk about spontaneous situations.

• talk about something that someone has already told us.

• talk about actions in progress at a certain time in the future

Do verbs tenses change in reported speech?

• No

• Yes

• I don't know

Is optional to use "that" in reported speech?

• Yes

• No

• I don't know

We don´t change verb tenses in reported speech when:

• The fact being reported is a general truth.

• Reporting something a person has just said

• Reporting something that still is true

• Reporting imperatives statements,

• All options are correct

John, "I am so tired of this work."

John said that ________________

• He will be tired of this work.

• He is tired of this work.

• He was tired of this work.

María: "We will go to the store"

María said that _________________

• She would go to the store

• She will go to the store

• She was go to the store

"He will come tomorrow".

She told me that he ________ tomorrow.

• is coming

• will come

• would come

“Don’t do it!”

• She ask me not to do it.

• She told me to not do it.

• She asked me not to do it.

• She told me not to do it.

“Would you mind waiting a moment please?”

• She told me to mind waiting a moment.

• She asked me to wait a moment.

• She ask me to wait a moment.

• She asked me to waiting a moment.

“She got married last year”

• She told that she had gotten married the previous year.

• She said that she got married the previous year.

• She said that I had gotten married the previous year.

• She told me that she had gotten married yesterday.