222 U9 LA Reported speech

222 U9 LA Reported speech

​Tell someone what you heard before using reported speech in the correct form.

​Tell someone what you heard before.

​1. Recognize the different tenses.

​2. Introduction to reported speech. Shift tenses.

​3. Identify the tenses and report the sentences.

​When we report what we have heard or read, we often use the reported speech.

​Reported speech is, basically, shift the tense and change words, such as pronouns and time expressions, to express the message from the point of view of yourself.

​Let's check some examples:

​Direct speech

​A: I don't understand this email.

​B: Why is that?

​A: My friend didn't tell me about this party.

​B: Oh. Maybe that was a secret and you weren't supposed to know.

​A: You may be right. Oh no! I have already replied to her.

​Reported speech

I was talking to Sarah and she told me that she didn't understand that email.

​She said her friend hadn't told her about that party.

​I told her that maybe that had been a secret that she hadn't been supposed to know.

​But she told me she had already replied to her friend.

Multiple Choice

Recognize the tense.

I never come on Fridays.

• Present continuous

• past simple

• present simple

• present perfect

Multiple Choice

The sentence "I never come on Fridays." reports to...

• simple present

• simple past

• past perfect

• past continuous

Multiple Choice

I am working hard.

• simple present

• simple past

• present continuous

• past continuous

Multiple Choice

She hasn't arrived yet.

• simple present

• past continuous

• present perfect continuous

• present perfect

Multiple Choice

I never told my mom about that.

• simple present

• simple past

• present perfect

• present perfect continuous

Multiple Choice

My mom was talking by phone.

• present perfect

• simple past

• present continuous

• past continuous

Multiple Choice

I hadn't arrived home at that time.

• present simple

• present perfect

• past perfect

• simple past

Special cases