B change the pronouns: X says to Y

B) Change the pronouns: X says to Y In reported speech you have to change I, me, my, mine, myself, / we, us, our, ours, ourselves if X isn’t I or we. YOU HAVE TO CONFORM I OR WE TO X.

Let’s see two examples:

Mary says to Peter she is a student.

Mary says to Peter they are friends.
In reported speech you have to change you, your, yours, yourself and yourselves if Y isn’t you. YOU HAVE TO CONFORM YOU TO Y.

Let’s see an example:

Mary says to Peter he is a teacher.







A) Look at the table below which contains the adverbs of time and place that you have to change in reported speech. At the end of the list there are two verbs that can be changed.

Direct speech	Reported speech
this / these	 that / those
here	 there
now	 then, at that time
today	 that day
tonight	 that night
yesterday	 the day before, the previous day
tomorrow	 the next day, the following day
the day after tomorrow	 in two days’ time
the day before yesterday	 two days before
this (week)	 that (week)
last (month)	 the (month) before, the previous (month)
next (year)	 the next (year), the following (year)
two days ago	 two days before
ago	 before
come	 go
bring	 take