English Grammar: Reported Speech

Thanks very good?

Indeed, she didn't mention? whether the sentence on the board is direct or indiretct speech. If it is direct, your point is totally right,? it would be she talking about something said by someone to herself.

my father said that when he CAME back he would give me? a present, looks the correct as this structure is grammatically? very similar to conditional tense, the condition in this case is that "(if) he came back" and the consequence is "he would give me a present". Hope I have helped a bit and any points to be made, I'm opened to reconsideration ;)

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my father said? that when he comes back he would give me a present.

As a native English speaker, I disagree,? this is really not the way most people speak. It all depends on whether you are speaking or writing. He said that you are smart; this sounds perfectly correct to me, most people would say this.To say you were smart implies that in the past you were smart, but, now, in the present you are not smart. In writing you could enclose the reported speech in quotation marks. Don't get hung up on this.? Don't worry about changing the tenses.

We use "Said Something TO someone" and "Told Someone" Ex. "I said? something TO them". "I told them the story".

when do we use "said? to" and "told" ?

Another mistake she made I think, in the? second? sentence it should be "he were a teacher" don't you think so ?

God I hate english!!!?