Reported Speech

Reported Speech

T. Doughnut

What is reported speech?

• Sometimes someone says a sentence, Later, maybe we want to tell someone else what the first person said.

• "Indirect speech".

Structure notice

• No commas/ Quatation mark.

• End sentence with full stop.

• Change the TENSE.

• Personal pronoun

Change the tenses

Direct speech >>> Reported speech

• Present Simple >>> Past Simple

• Present Continuous >>> Past Continuous

• Present Perfect >>> Past Perfect

• Past simple >>> Past Perfect

• Can >>> Could

Present Simple >>> Past Simple

(S + V.1) >>> (S + V.2)

• Joe said " I am tired".

• Joe said (that) he was tired.

• They said "We are so happy"

• They told me (that) they were so happy.

Multiple Choice

They said "we play volleyball".

• They said (that) they played volleyball.

• They said (that) they play volleyball.

Multiple Choice

John said " I love you".

• John said (that) he loved you.

• John said (that) he loved me.

Present Continuous >>> Past Continuous

(S + is/am/are + V.ing) >>> (S + was/were+V.ing)

• John said "I am taking a bath".

• John told me (that) he was taking a bath.

• They said "They are eating dinner".

• They said (that) they were eating dinner.

Present Perfect >>> Past Perfect

(S+have/has+V.3) >>> (S+had+V.3)

• Kim said "I have eaten".

• Kim said (that) he had eaten.

Multiple Choice

"We have worked", he said.

• He said that we have worked.

• He said that the worked.

• He said they had worked.

• He said we had worked.

Past Simple >>> Past perfect

S + V.2 >>> S + had + V.3

• Lisa said "I played volleyball".

• Lisa said (that) she had played volleyball.

• Chaiyut said "My father went to the hospital".

• Chaiyut said (that) his father had gone to the hospital.

Can >>> Could

(S + can + V.1) >>> (S + could + V.1)

• "I can help you," he said.

• He said (that) he could help me.

• My mother said "You can go to the party."

• My mother said (that) I could go to the party.

Multiple Choice

My mom said "I can cook"

____ said (that) ___ ___ cook.

• My mom, I could

• My mom, she can

• Mom, she, can

• My mom, she could

Multiple Choice

Sam said " I can work."

• Sam said I can work.

• Sam said I can worked.

• Sam said I could work

• Sam said I could work.