REPORTED SPEECH

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REPORTED SPEECH

feyzauygur

REPORTED SPEECH

Dear friends;

I need your help ,

� You haven �t done your homework yet, so you can �t go out � Sally said to him

Sally told him (that) he hadn �t done his homework yet ,so he couldn �t go out.

I always use this form to change the sentence reported speech. I don �t change yet .

But a friend of mine change YET to BY THEN.

Sally told him (that) he hadn �t done his homework BY THEN,so he couldn �t go out

I don �t remember seeing this usage.

Now my question ;Which one is true ?

COULD YOU HELP ME, PLEASE?

THANKS

23 May 2009

libertybelle

Yet is right.
By then is wrong.

23 May 2009

N.F.T

The sentence you are trying to create is a very VERY uncommon (to the point of NEVER BEING USED) passive sentence. The term "by then" doesn �t give us information about WHAT WHEN OR HOW - thus is it passive - maybe try including an OBJECT (ie active to passive = subject turns into object), THEN try complete the sentence.

"The blogger attempted to submit a question without an object but by then Matt had already realised that the sentence lacked an object"

That �s the best I can do.

Hope you solve the grammatical connundrum.

23 May 2009

N.F.T

if i �m not mistaken this is a modal verb of deduction

23 May 2009

feyzauygur

Thanks a lot for your answers

have a good weekend all of you

loves from TURKEY

23 May 2009