REPORTED SPEECH

When do we use it?

• When we want to talk about other people’s words. (At the same time (present no backshift) or after the person said it (past backshift)

• “ I will go back home tomorrow” - she said.

• “ Go down ”- she says.

Statements1- Sentences with a Subject + Verb + Object.

They are introduced by -- (THAT)

1- We lived in chine for 5 years- She told me.She told me that they had live in China for 5 years.

(Notice verb tenses changes, subject pronouns and possessives) Adverbs will also change.

QUESTIONS

• A) Yes/No question will be introduced by an “if” (no that) in questions. No auxiliaries, no inversion.

- “ Is he a good teacher?”-Mary asked me. (IF+S+V)

- Mary asked me if he was a good teacher.• B) WH- question Will be introduced by a wh-(no that) in questions. No auxiliaries, no inversion either.

- ”Where do you live?”- She asked me. (Wh-+S+V)

- She asked me where I lived.

COMMANDS /REQUESTS

• Imperative form. In these sentences we use a (to inf/ not to inf) in the reported speech. ( never use THAT)

• “Go ahead”- the teacher said to the boy.

• The teacher said to the boy to go ahead.

• “Don’t speak to him”- She ordered me.

• She ordered me not to speak to him

VERB TENSES AND ADVERBS CHANGES