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- How to Use
You can repeat exactly what someone said or you can use reported speech. Compare:
͞I will meet you in this café tomorrow at seven.͟ Tony said.
Tony {
 he would meet me in that café next day at seven.

- Type of Changes:
1. Subject Pronouns: I = he
2. Object pronouns: you = me
3. References to place: this = that
4. References to time: tomorrow = next day
5. Tenses: will meet = would meet

- Examples:
I ¦
 you = She said she ¦¦
 me


 happy = She said she 
 happy
I
 with you = She said she 
 with me

- Past Progressive Tense does not change in reported Speech

͞We were fighting͟
She said they were fighting
She said they had been fighting

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- How to use:
In reported questions, the same changes as for direct statement apply

- Form
 Yes/No questions drop the question mark and take the reporting verb ask + if
͞Are you going to the game?͟ asked Bob
Bob {

 I was going to the game
 Wh- Questions drop the question mark and take the reporting verb ask + the
question word
͞Where is the game?͟ asked Bob
Bob {
  the game was?
 Note that the order of the subject and the verb changes
Bob asked where the game was

- Examples:
 She asked me where I lived.
 They asked you what were you doing
 He asked her if she knew the answer
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- How to Use
The most frequent uses of say and tell are to ask for or give information. In these context,
there is no difference in meaning, but there is a difference in the way they are used

- Form
Say = Subject + say + (optional that)
Tell = subject + personal indirect object + (optional that)

- Note
With tell, we say who we tell, with say we don͛t usually use a personal object

- Examples
She told me (that) the movie started at 7:30
She said (that) the movie started at 7:30