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Reported speech
Transcript of Reported speech
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