Reported Speech

In this entry I would like to share that we worked with a English´s teacher who explained us about report speech´s uses. He explained us that exists two kinds of report speech; In the first case we can use it only with quotations marks in order to report something that other person said it is called direct speech. The second way is changing the sentence time, for example:

• simple present to simple past
• present progressive to past progressive
• simple past to past perfect
• past continuous to continuous past perfect 

Also we have to change modals verbs:

• can to could
• will to would
• may to might
• must to had to

At the end of the class we did a exercise changing sentence with report speech, he gave us a text oabut a interview to President Barack Obama. Wtih  this text we had to select seven statements by Barack Obama ang change it into reported speech.