Shifting Location: Changing Place Words in Reported Speech Quiz

We often change here to there to show the place from the reporter's point of view.

Live changes to lived and here changes to there when reported later.

Here correctly changes to there and are staying becomes were staying.

If the place has not changed, here can stay the same.

Here often becomes there, this becomes that, and these becomes those when reported from another place.

Here does not normally change to then, and there usually stays there if the place does not change.

Here usually becomes there when someone else reports the sentence later.

In reported speech, here often changes to there to match the reporter's location.

This place becomes that place to show distance from the reporter's point of view.

These changes to those and are becomes were in reported speech.

There already shows distance, so it often does not need to change.

Here usually changes to there, but it can stay here if the place has not changed.

A, B, C, and D correctly use there, that, and those to replace here, this, and these.

In B here should change to there, not then, and in D these should change to those.

This usually becomes that to show distance from the reporter.

These usually becomes those when we report speech from another place.

Reported speech shows the place from the reporter's point of view, which is often different from the original speaker's.

We use that and those to show more distance when reporting someone else's words.

Here becomes there and this hotel becomes that hotel, and will stay becomes would stay.

Checking here, this, and these helps you decide if they need to shift to there, that, or those.