Reported Speech

DIRECT SPEECH	INDIRECT SPEECH
PRONOUN
I / you	he / she  they
you	they / we
myself	himself / herself
ourselves	themselves
MODAL
Can	Could
Shall	Would
Will	Would
May	Might
Must	Had to
VERB
Present Tense	Past Tense
Verb/ Verb (s)	Verb (ed)
Eg go/goes	Eg went
Past Tense	Past Perfect Tense
Verb + ed	Had Verb –en
Eg Went	Eg Had gone
Present Continuous Tense	Past Continuous Tense
Is/are Verb+ing	Was/were Verb+ing
Eg is/are going	Was/ere going
Present Perfect Tense	Past perfect Tense
Has/have Verb(en)	Had Verb(en)
Eg has/have gone	Eg had gone
Past perfect Tense	Past perfect Tense
Had Verb(en)	Had Verb(en)
Eg had gone	Eg had gone
TIME
ago	before
now	then
yesterday	the previous day
today	that day
tonight	that night
tomorrow	the next day / the following day
the next day	the following day
this week / month / year	that week / month / year
next week / month /year	the following week/month /year
last week / month / year	the previous week / month / year