Transcript INDIRECT SPEECH – REPORTING STATEMENTS

INDIRECT SPEECH – REPORTING
STATEMENTS
“I am going”
She said she was going.
“She has passed her exam”
She told me she had passed her exam.
“I didn’t go to work yesterday.”
Paul said he hadn’t gone to work the day before.
• We usually use reporting verbs SAY and
TELL in the past
• SAY doesn’t have an indirect object:
She said she was going.
• TELL must have an indirect object – TELL
SOMEONE:
She told me she had passed her exam.
We often change the tense of the
original verb:
• PRESENT
PAST
am/is/are
was/were
take
took
is taking
was taking
• PRESENT
PAST
PERFECT
PERFECT
have taken
had taken
• PAST SIMPLE
PAST PERFECT
took
had taken
• MODALS
will
would
can
could
may
might
must had to
• EXPRESSIONS OF TIME AND PLACE
here
there
this
that
today
that day
yesterday
the previous day/the day before
tomorrow
the next/following day/the day after
next month
the following month/the month after
last month
the previous month/the month before
three days ago three days before/earlier
REPORTING QUESTIONS
• WORD ORDER OF A STETEMENT:
“What do you do in your spare time?”
He asked me what I did in my spare time.
• WH QUESTIONS KEEP QUESTION WORDS WHEN
THEY ARE REPORTED:
He asked me what I did in my spare time.
He wanted to know where I was going.
• YES/NO QUESTIONS ARE REPORTED WITH IF OR
WHETHER
“Are you willing to travel?”
She asked if/whether I was wiling to travel.