Transcript Reported Speech

Reported Speech
STATEMENTS
QUESTIONS
COMMANDS AND REQUESTS
Reporting verb in the past tense “BACKSHIFT”
 Reporting verb in the past simple: said, told, confirmed….etc
 Present Simple
Past simple
 Present Continuous Past Continuous
 Past Simple
Past Perfect
 Present Perfect Past Perfect
 Past Continuous Past Perfect Continuous
 Will Future Would
 Can Could
 May Might
 Must Had to
MIGHT, OUGHT
TO, COULD,
SHOULD and
WOULD and the
Past Perfect NO
CHANGE
 Direct Speech
TOLD + IO
 now
SAID
EXPLAINED
 today
 Yesterday
 two days ago
 here
 come
 this
COMPLAINED
 these
ADMITTED
 these, those
Reported Speech
that day
the previous day, the
day before
two days before, two
days earlier
then
there
go
that
those
the
Indirect Questions
Reporting
verbs:
Asked
wanted to
know
inquired
Word order as in affirmative
sentences
No do/does/did
No ?
If no QW we use IF or
WHETHER
• verb (told, asked , ordered,
commanded, persuaded) +
COI + (not) to + infinitive
offers and • verb (offered, advised)
+ (COI) + (not) to +
advice
infinitive
“Drive My Car" By Beatles 
I asked a girl "What do you want to be?"
She said if I, Baby, couldn´t see,
That she wanted to be famous, star of the screen,
But that I could do something in between.
That I, baby, could drive her car
That, yes, she was gonna [going to] be a star
That I, baby, could drive her car
And that maybe she´d love me.
I told my girl "My prospects are good"
She said to baby that it was understood,
That working for peanuts was all very fine,
But that she could show me a better time.
Beep, beep, mmm, Beep, beep, mmm, yeah!
I told that girl "I can start right away"
And she told me to listen, that she had something to say,
That she´d got no car, and that it was breaking her heart,
But that she´d found a driver, and that that was a start.