In reported speech, we say what someone else has told us. When we use the ____ form of say and tell to introducce reported statements, we also change the tense of the verbs in the direct speech. As well as changing pronouns and ____ when report statements in the past, we also change time and place references. ____ don't usually change when we report statements in the past. We can use the ____ form of say or tell to introduce reported statements if the original words are still true at the time of reporting. We use the same tense changes in reported questions as in reported statements. However, the word order changes to statement word order, so we ____ the auxiliary verb do/did. We use if or whether to report ____. We use the auxiliary or modal verb to report ____. We don't include ____ in reported questions.

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