Hi,
I have a question about changing direct speech into indirect speech:
The sentence: I went to Tailand last week
How should it be put in reported speech:
1 I told him that I’d been to Tailand the previous week [color=red]IMO this should be right, but I’m having my doubts
2 I told him that I’d gone to Tailand the previous week
Thanks !
Hi Alex,
A very interesting question if I may say so. To me ‘I’d gone’ is’ if you like, the copy book answer that would get the correct tick from teacher - ‘went’ becomes ‘had gone’ and ‘last week’ becomes ‘the previous week’. ‘I’d been’ adds I think another dimension because it suggests that you visited the place rather than simply going there and if used in a reported speech context would indicate that the speaker is talking about what ‘I’ did in connection with what was talked about at the time. Imagine the direct speech: He said: I was in Thailand last week as a matter of interest since you were talking about Bangkok.
Alan
I am sorry.
The name of the country should be Thailand.
Maybe, that is typing error.
Hi Alex
Both of your sentences are correct (except for the missing “H”). 
Sentence (1) has a sense of “went to and came back from”. Your second sentence does not indicate whether he returned or not in the same week, and the default interpretation will probably be that he did not return in that same week. The broader context would clarify that.
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