Forming Reported Speech many changes must be made apart from changing the tenses. One should also remember that not always the following changes are necessary.
| from | to | |
| time: | now | immediately / then |
| two days ago | two days before / earlier | |
| today | that day | |
| tonight | that night | |
| yesterday | the previous day / the day before | |
| place | here | there |
| this place | that place | |
| these places | those places | |
| verbs | come | go |
| bring | take | |
| czasowniki modalne | can | could |
| will | would | |
| may | might | |
| NIE ZMIENIAMY: | would, could, might, ought to, needn't have, used to | |