The key answer of exercise Grammar 1
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 06 - Language focus 2 for the textbook Cutting Edge Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave from Pearson Education
Question
Underline the verbs in the direct speech sentences in exercise 2a. Then underline the verbs in the reported speech sentences that you wrote. How do the tenses change in reported speech?
Answer
- will get married → would get married
- don't want to see → didn't want to see
- came in → had come in; expect to go out → expected to go out
- am hiring → was hiring
- have had → had had
In reported speech, the tense often moves back into the past.
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