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DIRECT SPEECH | 
REPORTED SPEECH | 
DIRECT SPEECH | 
REPORTED SPEECH | 
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Now | 
Then | 
Three days ago | 
Three days before | 
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This | 
That | 
Next Friday | 
The next Friday | 
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These | 
Those | 
Tonight | 
That night | 
| 
Here | 
There | 
Last week | 
The previous week, the week before | 
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Yesterday | 
The day before, the previous day | 
tomorrow | 
The next day, the day after | 
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Today | 
That day | 
COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES
- We use more.... for adverbs that end in -ly: more slowly, more quietly
- You can use -er or more... with some two-syllable adjectives, especially: quiet, clever, narrow, shallow, simple
- IRREGULAR COMPARATIVES: good/well > better, bad/badly > worse, far > further/farther
- FURTHER & FURTHEST meaning 'more' or 'additional': Let me know if you hear any further news
- Before comparatives you can use QUANTIFIERS such as: much, a lot, far, a bit, a little, slightly (He's much / slightly taller than his sister).
- You can use any, no + adjective in the comparative form. Ex. I'm not waiting any longer.
- Two comparatives of superiority connected by and meaning 'CADA VEZ MÁS'. Ex. The situation is becoming harder and harder.
- COMPARATIVE OF EQUALITY: so, as....as.... Fernando Alsonso is as fast as the wind.
- COMPARATIVE OF INFERIORITY: less....than... My cousin is less intelligent than my sister.
- Difference between LESS & FEWER. Examples: I've got less money than you. A bicycle has got fewer wheels than a bus.
- Some interesting collocations: the same as, different from, similar to
- After superlatives we use in with places (the longest river in the world) and of for a period of time (the happiest day of my life)
- ABSOLUTE SUPERLATIVE meaning 'very'. The book you lent me was most interesting.
 
 
 
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