Use of the simple present passive and the reported speech by

7hjkv4tt82 — 2022-11-26 04:43:39 UTC

Present Simple Passive is used to talk about some actions that are performed in the present or repeatedly (habits), simple statements of fact or universal truth.

The agents of such actions may be denoted with ‘by’:

This work is performed by a new company.
The beach is cleaned every morning.
Oranges are imported from Paraguay.

7hjkv4tt82 — 2022-11-26 04:46:47 UTC

To make statements with the Present Simple Passive, use:

am/is/are + the Past Participle form of the verb

7hjkv4tt82 — 2022-11-26 04:47:55 UTC

We use the Present Simple to express the idea that an action is repeated or usual. The action can be a habit, a hobby, a daily event, a scheduled event or something that often happens. In passive voice, we focus attention on the person or thing affected by the action, when the subject is unknown, unclear or irrelevant.

Reported speech

7hjkv4tt82 — 2022-11-26 04:52:13 UTC

We use a 'reporting verb' like 'say' or 'tell'. If this verb is in the present tense, We just put 'she or he says' and then the sentence:

Direct speech: I like ice cream.
Reported speech: She says (that) she likes ice cream.

We don't need to change the tense, though probably we do need to change the 'person' from 'I' to 'she', for example. We also may need to change words like 'my' and 'your'.

7hjkv4tt82 — 2022-11-26 04:52:35 UTC

7hjkv4tt82 — 2022-11-26 04:54:12 UTC

But, if the reporting verb is in the past tense, then usually we change the tenses in the reported speech:

Direct speech: I like ice cream.
Reported speech: She said (that) she liked ice cream.