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REPORTED SPEECH
Backshift of tenses Shifting of expressions of time
Simple Simple this (evening) that (evening)
Present Past
Past today/this that day
Simple Past
Perfect day
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Present these (days) those (days)
Perfect
Past Perfect now then
(a week) (a week) before
will would
ago
last weekend the weekend
Progressive forms before / the
previous weekend
am/are/is was/were here there
had been the following
was/were next (week)
(week)
the next/following
has been tomorrow
day
had been
