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Reported Speech
Perfect english grammar.
Reported Statements
Here's how it works:
We use a 'reporting verb' like 'say' or 'tell'. ( Click here for more about using 'say' and 'tell' .) If this verb is in the present tense, it's easy. We just put 'she says' and then the sentence:
- Direct speech: I like ice cream.
- Reported speech: She says (that) she likes ice cream.
We don't need to change the tense, though probably we do need to change the 'person' from 'I' to 'she', for example. We also may need to change words like 'my' and 'your'. (As I'm sure you know, often, we can choose if we want to use 'that' or not in English. I've put it in brackets () to show that it's optional. It's exactly the same if you use 'that' or if you don't use 'that'.)
But , if the reporting verb is in the past tense, then usually we change the tenses in the reported speech:
- Reported speech: She said (that) she liked ice cream.
* doesn't change.
- Direct speech: The sky is blue.
- Reported speech: She said (that) the sky is/was blue.
Click here for a mixed tense exercise about practise reported statements. Click here for a list of all the reported speech exercises.
Reported Questions
So now you have no problem with making reported speech from positive and negative sentences. But how about questions?
- Direct speech: Where do you live?
- Reported speech: She asked me where I lived.
- Direct speech: Where is Julie?
- Reported speech: She asked me where Julie was.
- Direct speech: Do you like chocolate?
- Reported speech: She asked me if I liked chocolate.
Click here to practise reported 'wh' questions. Click here to practise reported 'yes / no' questions. Reported Requests
There's more! What if someone asks you to do something (in a polite way)? For example:
- Direct speech: Close the window, please
- Or: Could you close the window please?
- Or: Would you mind closing the window please?
- Reported speech: She asked me to close the window.
- Direct speech: Please don't be late.
- Reported speech: She asked us not to be late.
Reported Orders
- Direct speech: Sit down!
- Reported speech: She told me to sit down.
- Click here for an exercise to practise reported requests and orders.
- Click here for an exercise about using 'say' and 'tell'.
- Click here for a list of all the reported speech exercises.
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Cel lekcji: dziś nauczę się przytaczać czyjąś wypowiedź
Mowę zależną stosujemy, kiedy przekazujemy czyjąś wypowiedź pośrednio, nie cytując jej wprost. Stosujemy wtedy najczęściej takie czasowniki parafrazy, jak: say, tell, ask oraz wyraz that, który wprowadza przytaczane słowa (wyraz that może być pominięty). W mowie zależnej nie stosujemy cudzysłowów.
Mowa zależna
Tworząc zdanie w mowie zależnej zaczynamy od odpowiedniego czasownika wprowadzjącego, najczęściej jest to słowo "said", nastepnie można postawić słówko "that" (że), jednak nie jest ono obowiązkowe w języku angielskim. W mowie zależnej występuje następstwo czasów, czyli cofamy się o jeden czas w stosunku do czasu użytego w mowie niezależnej.
Następstwo czasów
Present simple:It's a perfect day to go fishing.Past simple:She said it was a perfect day to go fishing.
Reported dpeech
PAST SIMPLE
PAST CONTINUOUS
PAST PERFECT
Direct speech
PRESENT SIMPLE
PRESENT CONTINUOUS
PRESENT PERFECT
Present simple
Reported speechShe said (that) she loved hiking.
Present continuous
Reported speechShe said (that) she was cooking dinner.
Present perfect
Reported speechShe said (that) she hadn't ordered a vegetable salad.
Past simple
Reported speechShe said (that) she had forgotten to buy tomatoes the previous day.
the day before, the previous day
określenia czasu
the next day, the following day
zaimki wskazujące
„SAY” I „TELL”
„Say” stosujemy, kiedy nie ma dopełnienia dalszego:He said that he was tired. „Tell” stosujemy zawsze wtedy, kiedy wymieniamy osobę, z którą się rozmawia (dopełnienie dalsze): He told me that he was tired.
She me she liked singing.
SAID or TOLD
She she liked singing.
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Kylie said that they would call me. We can use several introductory verbs to report statements: to say, to tell, to add, to continue, to answer, to reply, to mention, to remark, etc. When reporting statements, check whether you have to change: pronouns. tenses. place and time expressions. past simple.
When reporting speech the tense usually changes. This is because when we use reported speech, we are usually talking about a time in the past. (because obviously the person who spoke originally spoke in the past). The verbs therefore usually have to be in the past too. For example: Direct speech. "I'm going to the cinema", he said.
There are two main types of reported speech: Direct speech and indirect speech. Direct speech repeats the exact words the person used, or how we remember their words: Anna said, "I didn't realise it was midnight". Indirect speech, the original speaker's words are changed. Anna said she hadn't realised it was midnight.
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What is reported speech? We use reported speech when we want to tell someone what someone said. We usually use a reporting verb (e.g. say, tell, ask, etc.) and then change the tense of what was actually said in direct speech. The original speaker's words are changed.They said they'd phone later and let me know.
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Reported Speech - 22 slides with rules and examples - You can use to introduce the topic or to review it. When reviewing, you can show the original sentence and let your students report it before showing the second part and the rules. Hope your students enjoy. Happy teaching!
Found a mistake? This is a PowerPoint presentation with sound to learn Reported Speech. A complete grammar lesson explaining the use, changes of tense, pronouns, adverbs of time and place with examples. There are also some important notes about the main rules to report statements.
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The reporting verbs (told, reminded etc…) are followed by a direct object which refers to the 'hearer', i.e: the person who the speech was originally directed towards. With certain reporting verbs, if we decide to mention the hearer, we must do so with a prepositional phrase, e.g.: She admitted to me that she had made a stupid decision.
Presentation on reported statements, commands and requests. All used examples in direct speech have been taken from the book "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Irene Testot-Ferry. Hope it's useful.
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This PowerPoint Presentation contains information on certain reporting verbs and the structures used after them (infinitives, gerunds, etc). They have the chance to focus on their previous knowledge and then see how to report statements using something else but tell and say. There's the presentation part, drilling exercises, and free practice tasks. The exercises on slides 7-9 may be adapted ...
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Reported speechShe said (that) she hadn't ordered a vegetable salad. Info. Past simple. Reported speechShe said (that) she had forgotten to buy tomatoes the previous day. Read more. the day before, the previous day. yesterday. that week. this week. określenia czasu. VS. Reported speech. then. that day. that night. the next day, the following ...