Present Simple
If you have present simple to what tense do you change the sentence?
To Past Simple, so easy.
I´m getting better.
He said that he was getting better
They played football.
They said they had played football.
I will do it.
He said he would do it.
Please, help me with my biology homewor.(mum)
She asked her mom to help her with her biology homework.
She said that she had hay fever.
She has hay fever.
I´m getting better marks in the exams now.
She said she was getting better marks.
I bought a book yesterday.
He said he had bought a book the day before.
Can we go to the swimming pool?
She said if we could go to the swimming pool.
Don´t touch that sculpture.
He told us not to touch that sculpture.
I´m really bad at maths.
He said he was really bad at maths.
She said she was coming down with the flu.
We wanted to be doctors.
They said that they had wanted to be doctors.
Will you go to the party this month?
He asked me if I would go to the party that month.
Can you tell her the homework, please?
I have a lot of exams and I don´t study.
She said she had a lot of exams and she didn´t study.
He is listening to music right now.
He said he was listening to music at that moment.
I broke my arm playing rugby.
She said she had broken her arm when she was playing rugby.
He said he would do it.
I will do it
Put your hands up right now!
He told me to put my hands up at that moment.
She have a pretty face.
She said she had a pretty face.
I wanted to live in Spain.
You can´t change it to past continous because is in Past Simple.
My sister was here yesterday.
She said his sister had been there the day before.
I can´t do it tomorrow
She said that she couldn´t do it the following day
Don´t do any sports for the next six weeks (doctor)
The doctor told him not to do any sport for the next six weeks.