Write these sentences in reported speech changing the words where necessary- 1. “I’ll see you tomorrow”, she said.
2. “I saw her today”, he said.
3. “I met her about three months ago”, he said.
4. “We visited her this morning”, they said.
5. “We’ll see her next summer”, they said.
6. “They were here last week” ,she said.
7. He said, “It may rain tonight.”
8. He said, “I really must go.”
9. He said, “I have to go because I have an appointment in half an hour.”
10. I said, “I would like to see it.”

1. She said that she would see me the next day.

2. He said that he had seen her that day.

3. He said that he had met her about three months before.

4. They said they had visited her that morning.

5. They said they would visit her the following summer.

6. She said that they had been there the previous week.

7. He said that it might rain that night.

8. He said that he really had to go.

9. He said that he had to go because he had an appointment half an hour later.

10.  He said that he would like to see it.          

Explanation:

We use reported speech to say something that another person said. To do so, we change the tenses and some words.

Present simple> past simple

Present continous> past continous

Present perfect> past perfect

Past simple> past perfect

Past perfect> past perfect

Will---> would

May---> might

Tomorrow---> the next day

the next> the following

today--->that day

Ago---> before

this---> that

last week/day/month---> the previous

must---> had to

english novelist and poet, the eldest of the three brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of english literature.

she enlisted in school at roe head in january 1831, aged 14 years. she left the year after to teach her sisters, emily and anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. in 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the sidgwick family, but left after a few months to return to haworth where the sisters opened a school, but failed to attract pupils. instead they turned to writing and they each first published in 1846 under the pseudonyms of currer, ellis and acton bell. her first novel the professor was rejected by publishers, her second novel jane eyre was published in 1847. the sisters admitted to their bell pseudonyms in 1848, and by the following year were celebrated in london literary circles.

brontë experienced the early deaths of all her siblings. she became pregnant shortly after her marriage in june 1854 but died on 31 march 1855, almost certainly from hyperemesis gravidarum, a complication of pregnancy which causes excessive nausea and vomiting.

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