Reported Speech

Reported Speech( EL ESTILO INDIRECTO)
El estilo indirecto, a diferencia del estilo directo, no utiliza las comillas y no necesita ser palabra por palabra. En general, cuando se usa el estilodirecto, el tiempo verbal cambia. A continuación tienes un explicación de los cambios que sufren los tiempos verbales.
A veces se usa "that" en las frases afirmativas y negativas para introducir lo que hadicho la otra persona. Por otro lado, en frases interrogativas se usa "if"/"whether".
|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 if I was busy tonight. |
|Present Continuous|Past Continuous |
|"Dan is living in San Francisco," she said. |She said Dan was living in San Francisco.|
|He said, "I'm making dinner." |He told me that he was making dinner. |
|"Why are you working so hard?" they asked.|They asked me why I was working so hard. |
|Past Simple |Past Perfect Simple |
|"Wewent to the movies last night," he said. |He told me they had gone to the movies last night. |
|Greg said, "I didn't go to work yesterday." |Greg...