Matching Pairs Reported Speech Online version Match comments to sentences 1-5 by Mariana Padilla 1 Mia told Matt that her trip to Thailand had been/was amazing 2 Mia says she'll never use a guidebook again. 3 Matt asked if Mia could recommend a guidebook. 4 Mia offered to show Matt her photos of Thailand this/that evening. 5 Mia says she's considering relying on Twitter recommendations next time she is travelling. Some modal verbs always change in reported speech. You can make changes to time references if the information is being reported at a later date. It isn't necessary to make tense changes if the reporting verb is in the present tense. No tense change should be made because the information is still true. You only need to make tense changes when referring to a past event if it happened a long time ago or the information is out of date
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