Direct and indirect speech
To change the direct into indirect, there are some changes :
1.
Subject/object
2.
Tenses
DIRECT
|
INDIRECT
|
Ø Present
|
Ø Past
|
Am/is/are
|
Was/were
|
V1/ves
|
V2
|
Don’t/doesn’t
|
Didn’t + V1
|
Ø Past
|
Ø Past perfect
|
Was/were
|
Had been
|
V2
|
Had + V3
|
Didn’t + V1
|
Had + V3
|
3.
Modal
DIRECT
|
INDIRECT
|
Can
|
Could
|
Will
|
Would
|
May
|
Might
|
Must
|
Had to
|
4.
Adverb of time
DIRECT
|
INDIRECT
|
Now
|
Then
|
Today
|
That day
|
Tonight
|
That night
|
This week
|
That week
|
Yerterday
|
The day before
|
Last night
|
The night before
|
Last week
|
The previous week
|
A year ago
|
A year before/the pervious year
|
Tomorrow
|
The next day/the following day
|
Next year
|
The following year
|
Here
|
There
|
This
|
That
|
These
|
Those
|
1.
She asked me,
“ will you come to my house?”
® She asked me if iwouldcame
to her house
2.
He asked me, “
do you love me?”
® He asked me if i really loved him
3.
She asked me,
“ was fitri absent
yerterday?”
® She asked me if fitri had been absent the day before
4.
They asked me,
“ did you go to school two day ago?”
® They asked me if i had
gone to school two days
before
5.
He asked me, “
did you call me last night?”
® He asked me if i had
callad him the night before
6.
He asked me, “
are you tired?”
® He asked me if i was
tired
