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♦   Change in Adverbs of Time and Place

                  Conversion of Adverbs of Time and Place

                           Direct Speech                               Indirect Speech


                  this (evening)                       that (evening)
                  today/this day                       that day

                  now these (days)                     then those (days)

                  (a week) ago                         (a week) before

                  last weekend                         the weekend before/the previous weekend

                  here                                 there

                  next (week)                          the following (week)

                  tomorrow                             the next/following day


              ♦   Change in Personal Pronouns

                     ƒ First person pronouns change according to the subject of the reporting verb,
                     i.e., the person who is delivering the direct speech. For example,

                     •  She said, ‘I want to bring my children tomorrow.’
                         She said that she wanted to bring her children the next day.

                     •  Jeet said, ‘My wife went with me to the show yesterday.’

                         Jeet said that his wife had gone with him to the show the day before.

                     ƒ Second person pronouns change according to the object of the reporting
                     verb, i.e., person to whom the direct speech is being addressed. For example,

                     •   Mother said to me: ‘You have to finish your homework before we take you
                         out.’
                         Mother told me that I had to finish my homework before they took me out.

                     •   Mother said to my sister and me: ‘You have to finish your homework before
                         we take you out.’

                          Mother told my sister and me that we had to finish our homework before
                         they took us out.

                     ƒ Third person pronouns do not change when direct speech is transformed
                     into indirect speech. For example:
                     •   Jack said, ‘My wife is going to visit her mother, after which she will do
                         some shopping.’



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