Indirect Statements

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3. They are repairing your car in the garage. (passive voice)
REVISION
Rewrite the sentences as directed
1. The man has phoned you. He talked to you at the party last
night. (Relative cause)
2. He has just finished the reports. (Passive voice)
4. That’s the house. We used to live there in our childhood.
(Relative clause)
The man who/ that talked to you at the party last night
has phoned you
The reports have just finished
Your car is being repaired in the garage
That’s the house where we used to live in our childhood

INDIRECT STATEMENTS
(REPORTING VERB IN THE PAST)
Compiled by Nguyễn Thị Bích Liên

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Reporting Verbs in INDIRECT STATEMENTS
SAY + that clause
TELL +someone + that clause



Examples

“I spoke to Jane last week,” she said.
She said that she had spoke to Jane the previous
week
“I’ll see you soon,” he said to me.
He told me he would see me soon.


I often play
tennis
She went to
Moscow alone
He’s gone
home
I’ll go with Anna
She is staying
with her aunt
He said that he often played tennis.
Simple Past
He said that she was staying with
her aunt.
He said that she had gone to Moscow
alone.
She said that he had gone home.
He said that he would go with Anna.
DIRECT STATEMENTS
INDIRECT STATEMENTS
Simple Present
Present Continuous
Simple Past
Present Perfect

WILL
Past Continuous
Past Perfect
Past Perfect
WOULD
Study the chart below and notice how the tenses are changed