Reported Speech

Reported Speech

Reported Speech is reporting what some body else says.The verb in the sentence will change in a reported statement. Changing a direct speech into indirect speech.

Speaker's words	Reported statement
Will	Would
Shall	Should
Is going to	Was going to
Present simple	Past simple
Present continuous	Past continuous
Past continuous	Past perfect continuous
Present perfect	Past perfect
Past simple	Past perfect
Must	Had to
Can	Could

 As well as tense changes,other words in direct speech need to be changed when they are reported.
Example:

Speaker's Word	Reported statment
Tomorrow	The next day
Yesterday	The day before
Here	There
This/that	The
This morning	That morning
Today	That day
Tonight	That night
Next/on tuesday	The following Tuesday
Last tuesday	The previous Tuesday
The day after tomorrow	In two day's time
Ago	Before/previously

Source : Grammar Practice for intermediate,Steven Elsworth,Elaine Walker.