Practice modes
Languages & Literature
Pakistan
World & History
| Direct speech | Indirect speech |
|---|---|
| Present Simple: "I write." | Past Simple: he said that he wrote. |
| Present Continuous: "I am writing." | Past Continuous: he said that he was writing. |
| Present Perfect: "I have written." | Past Perfect: he said that he had written. |
| Past Simple: "I wrote." | Past Perfect: he said that he had written. |
| Past Continuous: "I was writing." | Past Perfect Continuous: he said that he had been writing. |
| will: "I will write." | would: he said that he would write. |
| can / may / shall | could / might / should (or would) |
| Direct | Indirect |
|---|---|
| now | then |
| today | that day |
| tonight | that night |
| yesterday | the previous day / the day before |
| tomorrow | the next day / the following day |
| ago | before |
| this | that |
| these | those |
| here | there |
| last week | the previous week |
| next week | the following week |
| Type | Direct | Indirect |
|---|---|---|
| Statement | He said, "I am busy today." | He said that he was busy that day. |
| Question (yes/no) | She said to me, "Are you coming?" | She asked me if I was coming. |
| Question (wh-) | He said to me, "Where do you live?" | He asked me where I lived. |
| Command | The teacher said to us, "Sit down." | The teacher told us to sit down. |
| Request | He said to her, "Please help me." | He requested her to help him. |
| Exclamation | She said, "What a beautiful view!" | She exclaimed that it was a very beautiful view. |
| Universal truth (no tense change) | The teacher said, "The Earth moves round the Sun." | The teacher said that the Earth moves round the Sun. |
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