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ct Practice: Change the following sentences into reported speech. 1 ‘I haven’t brought my dictionary,’ the student said. 2 Tom said to them, ‘ I will get excited.’ 3 My father said to me, ‘I am reading the book.’ The student said that he hadn’t brought his dictionary. Tom told them that he would get excited. My father told me that he was reading the book. What should we pay attention to? 1 personal pronouns and tense 2 adverbials of time and place : He said, ‘I lost a key here yesterday.’ He said that he had lost a key there the day before/the previous day. Ex. ‘I read the book here a week ago.’Jane said to him. Jane told him that she had read the book there a week before. learn more about it Direct speech Reported speech today the day/yesterday/on Monday,etc. tomorrow the next day/the following day/on Friday, etc yesterday the day before/the previous day/on Tuesday,etc next month the month after/the following month/in July,etc last year the year before/the previous year, etc. a week ago a week before/a week earlier, etc. Practice: Change the following sentences into reported speech. 1 ‘I will e and see you again this evening, Tom.’ he said. 2 ‘I will e here again today,’ she said. 3 The doctor said to the patient, ‘You will have to wait till 3 pm tomorrow.’ He told Tom that he would go and see him again that evening. She said