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Maj Posted 22 years ago
Grammar

Reported speech

She said: "I am risking everthing I have for you". Can you change this this sentence into reported speech?
  

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Hi, Inorder for you to change this direct quotation into indirect you have to change "I am risking" into past continous, and 'Have' to past tense. The sentence will be: She said that she was risking everything she had for you. Dima

— Dima

  • Hi, Inorder for you to change this direct quotation into indirect you have to change "I am risking" into past continous, and 'Have' to past tense.
  • The sentence will be: She said that she was risking everything she had for you.
  • Dima
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Hi,
Inorder for you to change this direct quotation into indirect you have to change "I am risking" into past continous, and 'Have' to past tense.
The sentence will be: She said that she was risking everything she had for you.

Dima
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I dont entirely agree .. the verbs "to be and to have" can (should? ) stay in present,
then you get:
"she said that she is risking everything she has for you"
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Who is the "you" in your sentence?

She said that she was risking everything she had for me. (Could be ambiguous out of context. It could mean that she has a lot of investments and the profits of those would go to you later)

She said (that) she was risking everything for me (that) she had.

Generally though, folks will probably understand the intent.

She said
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she says,"I will come down as soon as i am ready."
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She says she will come down as soon as I/you are ready.
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it must be; she said that she was risking everything she had for me. because we must do past at reported speech.

but we can use present tense but it likes telling the story . she says " I'm risking everything i have for you" this isn't reported speech.
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Yunusit must be; she said that she was risking everything she had for me. because we must do past at reported speech.

but we can use present tense but it likes telling the story . she says " I'm risking everything i have for you" this isn't reported speech.

Indeed true.
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You can also use reported speech when the reporting verb is in the present tense. "Reported speech" is when you report somebody else's words, whatever the the tense of the reporting verb may be.
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When we use the exact words of the speaker or writer are used it's called quoted speech.

If a statement is put into reported speech, the reporting verb is usually in the simple past and the verb in the reported statement is usually changed to a past tense.

Simple past ----------------> simple past

present progressive ---------> past pro
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As suggested by some of us, according to the rules, it should be:

She said that she was risking everything she had for me.
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