Simple Present
"I help people with their homework every day."
-Myrna
Myrna said she helped people with their homework every day
"I slept all day!"
-Marcel
Marcel said he had slept all day
"After quarantine, I will play outside with my puppy"
-Megan
Megan said that after quarantine, she would play outside with her puppy
We use reported speech to repeat what somebody else said.
TRUE!
"My father fixes cars for a living"
-Josh
Josh said his father fixed cars for a living
-Ximena
Ximena said she had bought more markers for her collection
"I will take several naps today"
-Sara
Sara said she would take several naps today
We use reported speech to refer to a noun.
FALSE! We use relative pronouns to refer to nouns.
"I love watching your tiktoks!"
-Megan
Megan told me she loved watching my tiktoks
-Alex
Alex said he had played video games all day
"I will organize all of my markers by color"
-Ximena
Ximena said she would organize all of her markers by color.
If the sentence is in Simple Present, the reported speech sentence changes to simple present too.
FALSE! It changes to Simple Past
"I love watching Netflix during the quarantine"
-Sara
Sara said she loved watching Netflix during the quarantine.
"My tiktok video got 100,000 likes!"
-Megan
Megan said her tiktok video had gotten 100,000 likes
"This weekend, I will paint my whole house"
-Marcel
Marcel said he would paint his whole house this weeekend.
Will changes to WOULD in reported speech
TRUE
"Marcel always participates in our online English classes."
-Alex
Alex said Marcel always participated in our English classes
"Oh no, I forgot to do my homework!"
-Sara
Sara said she had forgotten to do her homework.
"I will help you with your English homework!"
-Alex
Alex told me he would help me with my English homework.
If the sentence is in the Simple Past, we change the sentence by adding HAD + the base form of the verb
FALSE! We change it by adding HAD + THE PAST PARTICIPLE