Reported Speech

|Direct Speech |Reported Speech |
|Present Simple |Past Simple|
|"He's American" she said. |She said he was American.|
|"I'm happy to see you," Mary said. |Mary said that she was happy to see me. |
|He asked, "Are you busy tonight?" |He asked me ifI was busy tonight. |
|Present Continuous |Past Continuous|
|"Dan is living in San Francisco," she |She said Dan was living in San Francisco. |
|said. ||
|He said, "I'm making dinner." |He told me that he was making dinner.|
|"Why are you working so hard?" they |They asked me why I was working so hard. |
|asked.| |
|Past Simple |Past Perfect Simple|
|"We went to the movies last night," he |He told me they had gone to the movies last night. |
|said.| |
|Greg said, "I didn't go to work |Greg said that he hadn't gone to work yesterday....