Perubahan Tenses pada Indirect Speech

Perubahan tenses pada indirect speech atau reported speech terjadi jika main clause pada direct speech merupakan tenses past. Perubahan tersebut mengikuti aturan sebagai berikut di bawah ini:

PERUBAHAN TENSES

DIRECT SPEECH	INDIRECT SPEECH
Simple Present Tense	Simple Past Tense
Present Continuous Tense	Past Continuous Tense
Present perfect Tense	Past Perfect Tense
Present Perfect Continuous Tense	Past Perfect Continuous Tense
Simple Past Tense	Past Perfect Tense
Past Continuous Tense	Past Perfect Continuous Tense
Past Perfect Tense	Past Perfect Tense
Past Perfect Continuous Tense	Past Perfect Continuous Tense

PERUBAHAN MODALS

Selain perubahan tenses pada reported speech, modals juga mengalami perubahan. Berikut ini tabel perubahan modal pada indirect speech.

DIRECT SPEECH	INDIRECT SPEECH
Can	Could
Must	Had to
Will	Would
May	Was/Were allowed to
Might	Might
Shall	Should
Could, Would, Should	Tetap (Could, Would, Should)
Have to / Has to	Had to
Might	Might

PERUBAHAN ADVERB

DIRECT	INDIRECT
Now	Then / at thet time
Today	That day
Yesterday	The day before / the previous day
The day before yesterday	Two days before
Two days ago	Two days before
Tomorrow	The following day / The next day
Tomorrow morning	The following morning
The day after tomorrow	In two days time
Next week / year	The following week / year
Last week / year	The previous week / year
Last Sunday	The previous Sunday
A year ago	A year before
This	That
These	Those
Here	There