Reported speech · CEFR B2 · Confident
here → there, today → that day in English
Words that point at the speaker's place and time have to be repointed, or the report says something false.
The shape
this → that · here → there · now → then · tomorrow → the next day
Report a sentence from where you are standing now.
In Hindi
वक्ता की जगह और समय बताने वाले शब्द बदलने पड़ते हैं, वरना बात ग़लत हो जाती है।
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The mistake to fix first
The sentence Indian-English speakers actually produce, and the reason it is wrong.
| Commonly said | Correct English |
|---|---|
Yesterday he said he would come tomorrow. | Yesterday he said he would come the next day. His "tomorrow" was today — reporting it as "tomorrow" moves the day by one. |
Learn these first
These come first. The rest of this makes more sense once they are automatic.
Questions people ask
- What is the here → there, today → that day used for?
- Words that point at the speaker's place and time have to be repointed, or the report says something false. In practice: report a sentence from where you are standing now.
- How do you form the here → there, today → that day?
- this → that · here → there · now → then · tomorrow → the next day.
- What is the most common mistake with the here → there, today → that day?
- Saying “Yesterday he said he would come tomorrow.” instead of “Yesterday he said he would come the next day.”. His "tomorrow" was today — reporting it as "tomorrow" moves the day by one.
Where here → there, today → that day fits
Where this structure sits in the ladder, and what surrounds it.
here → there, today → that day 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.
Reading it is not the same as saying it.
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