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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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