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Reported Speech PDF
Reported Speech PDF
DIRECT SPEECH
REPORTED SPEECH
REPORTED SPEECH
DIRECT SPEECH
He asked If I liked pizza
No quotation marks “ ”
“Do you like pizza?”- he asked
Use an introductory verb: asked
Questions/polite
Ask He asked (me) if I loved pizza commands/favors
From Direct Speech to Reported Speech
In the Out-Of-Date Reporting, we change the tenses as follows:
From Direct Speech to Reported Speech
In the Out-Of-Date Reporting, we change the tenses as follows:
From Direct Speech to Reported Speech
Time expressions change as follows:
From Direct Speech to Reported Speech
The reported sentence is structured as follows:
Subject
Practice:
1. “I am tired”, Alex said.
Alex said he was tired.
2. “I’ll come back tomorrow”, Sarah told her mom.
Sarah told her mom she would go/come back the next/following day.
3. “Karen has left her backpack here”, Tony said.
Tony said Karen had left her backpack there.
4. “We watched a movie yesterday”, Sam and Ted said.
Sam and Ted said they had watched a movie the day before.
5. “My mom is busy, she can’t pick up the phone now”, the kid said.
The kid said his mom was busy, (that) she couldn’t pick up the phone
then
Reported speech:
Questions
From Direct Speech to Reported Speech
The reported YES/NO question is structured as follows:
Subject
Subject
“I’m sorry I was late” she told us She apologized for being late.
“Why don’t we watch a movie?” she said She suggested watching a movie.
Special
reporting/Introductory
Verbs
Special reporting Verbs
Special Introductory Verbs with INFINITIVE (to do)
Introductory V infinitive + complement
Subject
Subject
Subject
Subject
Subject
Subject
Subject 1 Subject 2
Direct Speech Reported Speech
He asked himself “Where is she?” He wondered where she was.
He asked himself “What is Carl doing?” He wondered what Carl was doing.
He asked himself “Why is she here?.” He wondered why she was there.
He asked himself “HOw did she do that?” He wondered how she had done that.
Subject 1
Direct Speech Reported Speech
He asked himself “should I hire her?” He wondered whether to hire her.
He wondered whether he should hire her.
Special Introductory Verbs with WONDER
WONDER Infinitive + complement
Subject 1 Subject 1