DIRECT SPEECH & INDIRECT SPEECH
WHEN WE USE THE DIRECT SPEECH WE’RE HAVING
A DIALOG. WE’RE SAYING SOMETHING.
SIMPLE ASPECT
A: “My parents are well.”
A: “Jim has bought a new car.”
B: “I want to go on a holiday, but I don’t know where.”
B: “I can’t come to your party on Friday.”
C: “I’m going to give up my job.”
C: “I’ll call you when he gets back.”
D: “I woke up feeling ill and I stayed in bed.”
PROGRESSIVE ASPECT
A: “Don’t speak, Tom is sleeping. ”
A : “I have been waiting for you for one hour.”
B: “I was preparing fish when he came in.”
B: “This time tomorrow I’ll be flying.”
WHEN WE’RE USING THE INDIRECT
OR REPORTED SPEECH WE’ ARE TALKING ABOUT
SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED IN THE PAST.
She said that her parents were well.
She said that Jim had bought a new car.
He said he wanted to go on a holiday, but he didn’t know
where to go.
He said he couldn’t come to your party on Friday.
She said she was going to give up her job.
She said she would call you when he got back.
He said he had woken up feeling ill and had stayed in bed.
He said he woke up feeling ill and stayed in bed.
He told him not to speak because Tom was sleeping.
He said he had been waiting for you for one hour.
She said she had been preparing fish when he came.
She said she was preparing fish when he came.
He said he would be flying that time next day.