Opening your workspace
Getting things ready…
Getting things ready…
We use cookies to understand usage and improve CoCap.
Balanced
English stays the learning language. Your selected language is used for help where support is available. The exact challenge value is carried into CoCap practice.
Reported speech · CEFR B2 · Confident
Each tense moves one step into the past — except when what was said is still true, where good speakers often leave it alone.
Rebuild this lesson’s reference sentence. Other tasks can have other valid word orders.
Tap words to add or remove them. Drag words into the answer, or use the buttons. Arrow keys move a selected word.
She said she would call me.
is → was · did → had done · will → would
Question 1 of 1
Choose an answer, then check why it fits.
This is a check of this example, not an English level assessment.
Example 1 of 1
She said she would call me.
After a past reporting verb, "will" becomes "would".
The shape
is → was · did → had done · will → would
Move every tense back by one, and know when not to.
In Hindi
हर काल एक क़दम पीछे जाता है — पर अगर बात अब भी सच हो, तो अक्सर उसे वैसा ही रखा जाता है।
CoCap explains every structure in both languages, because a rule you understand in Hindi is a rule you can use in English.
The sentence Indian-English speakers actually produce, and the reason it is wrong.
| Commonly said | Correct English |
|---|---|
She said she will call me. | She said she would call me. After a past reporting verb, "will" becomes "would". |
These come first. The rest of this makes more sense once they are automatic.
Where this structure sits in the ladder, and what surrounds it.
When the tense steps back is a CEFR B2 structure — the confident band — and it belongs to reported speech. CoCap’s syllabus files every structure this way so you can learn in order instead of jumping between whatever a search happened to return.
Read and practise these examples without an account. Try Kyra on the homepage; create an account when you want to save your progress.
Try it with Kyra →