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Reported speech · CEFR B2 · Confident
Words that point at the speaker's place and time have to be repointed, or the report says something false.
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Yesterday he said he would come the next day.
this → that · here → there · now → then · tomorrow → the next day
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Choose an answer, then check why it fits.
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Example 1 of 1
Yesterday he said he would come the next day.
His "tomorrow" was today — reporting it as "tomorrow" moves the day by one.
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।
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 |
|---|---|
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. |
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.
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.
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