Chuyển từ câu trực tiếp sang trần thuật: lùi thì ( vd: từ hiện tại đơn-> quá khứ đơn, hiện tại hoàn thành -> quá khứ hoàn thành ) ; thay đổi đại từ xưng hô cho phù hợp ( vd: she -> I, we -> they ) ; thay đổi từ chỉ thời gian, nơi chốn ( vd: here -> there, tomorrow -> the next day ... )
1. My mother said that that boy had broken her window the previous day.
2. They said that people planted rice in those fields.
3. He said that they had known him well.
4. She said that she would see me the next day.
5. He said that he had seen her that day.
6. She said that she prefered that picture.
7. She said that they had seen him off at the station that day.
8. The machanic told me that he/she would get the mortobike ready for me on sunday.