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Reported Speech Mixed Tenses

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  • Mary:” We will play cards together tomorrow, I promise”
    Marry promised me (that) we would play cards together the the next day.
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  • Alan:”I went to bed early last night”.
    Alain said (that) he had gone to bed early that night.
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  • Gloria:” I am sorry but I can’t come to your birthday party because I am going away next week.”
    Gloria told me / explained (that) she was really sorry but she couldn’t come to my party because she was going away the following week.
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  • Judy: "I have already told this you four times today!"
    Judy comlained (that) she had already told me that four times that day.
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  • Betty:” I'm so sorry I didn't help you with your problem last week.”
    Betty told me (that) she was sorry she hadn't helped me the week before.
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  • Dave: "I was outside the office during my break but I didn't buy anything for lunch. "
    Dave said (that) he had been outside the office during his break but (that) he hadn't bought anything for lunch."
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  • Jimmy to father: "I am sure that I saw my wallet here somewhere. "
    Jimmy told his father that he was sure he had seen his wallet there somewhere.
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  • Lisa:” Tomorrow at five o’clock I will be sitting on a train to Glasgow.”
    Lisa said that the next day at five o’clock he would be sitting on a train to Glasgow.
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  • Mrs. Wilson: “No one has ever spoken to me like this before.”
    Mrs. Wilson said that no one had ever spoken to her like that before
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  • Tim to Walter: "These shoes I bought last week aren't comfortable at all."
    Tim told Walter that the shoes he had bought the week before weren't comfortable at all.
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  • Electrician to man: "Don’t touch this wire with!"
    The electrician warned him / told him not to touch that wire.
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  • Sue: "I am really happy today, because I got paid yesterday."
    Sue said (that) she was really happy that day, because she had got paid the day before.
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  • Barbara: "I have been working really hard this morning."
    Barbara said that she had been working really hard that morning.
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  • Sabrina: "I will wake up early tomorrow."
    Sabrina said (that) she would wake up early the next morning.
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  • Teacher: "Peter didn't go to school yesterday."
    The teacher said (that) Peter hadn't gone to school the day before.
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  • Tom: "I am going out with Jane tomorrow"
    Tom said (that) he was going out with Jane the next day.
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