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Direct Indirect Materi Daring
Direct Indirect Materi Daring
I am feeling ill
Look at the picture and you want to tell somebody else what Tommy said
You can use Reported Speech Tom said that he was feeling ill
Compare
Direct Tommy said “ I am feeling ill
↓ ↓
Reported Tommy said that he was feeling ill
B. When we use reported speech the main verb of the sentence is usually Past (Tommy
said that …/I told her that …/She told me that …,etc) and the rest of the sentence is Past
too
Tommy :” Iam feeling ill”
Tommy sai that he was feeling ill
Lina :”My mother doesn’t have time to finish cooking”
Lina said that her mother didn’t have time to finish cooking
In general,the present form of direct speech change to the past in Indirect Speech:
Am/is →was were do/does→did will→would
are→were have/has→had can→could
Know/love→knew/loved etc
Look at the examples below
“My parents are well”
Judith said that her parents were well
“I am going to learn to drive
Judith said that she was going to learn to drive
“I can’t come to the birthday party”
Judith told me that she couldn’t come to the birthday party
“I want to spend the holiday but I don’t know where to to go”
Judith said that she wanted to spend the holiday but she didn’t know where to go
“I am going away for a few days. I’ll phone you when I get back”
Judith told me that she was going away for a few days and would phone me when she
got back
C. The past simple (knew, saw,did etc) change into the past perfect (had known,had
seen,had done etc)in reported speech/indirect speech
Compare
Direct Tommy said :”I saw you yesterday”
Reported Tommy said that he had seen me the day before
Direct Tommy said :”I woke up late so I didn’t go to work”
Reported Tommy said that he had woken up late and hadn’t gone to work
Reported Imperative
(he told me to/not to…)
There are some rules for changing the words showing time and place in direct speech into
indirect speech.. The table below shows the words of time and adverb, how they are
changed in indirect speech.