Reported Speech and Direct Speech

How does Sarah report on Jonathan's speech most of the time?

• Jonathan said...

• Jonathan says...

• Jonathan is saying...

• Jonathan has said...

Reported Speech and Direct speech are both used to recount an event.

• True

• False

Reported Speech is used for recounting what someone else has already said

• True

• False

When we quote the exactly what someone says we use:

• Indirect Speech

• Reported Speech

• Un-reported Speech

• Direct Speech

Quotation marks are used in:

• Reported Speech

• Direct Speech

You must add the word "that" before the verb 'said' in direct speech

• True

• False

What happens to verbs in direct speech when an event is reported

• Present tense becomes past tense

• Past tense becomes present tense

• The verb doesn't change

• There is a change of mood

In Sarah's report, the determiner 'our' was changed to which determiner?

• ours

• thieirs

• their

• yours

This change in determiner was mainly because:

• Sarah was referring to an experience that someone else had

• Jonathan and Michael asked her to change it

• Sarah thought it would sound better

• Our always changes. to 'their'

Reported speech does not changes the meaning of what the person originally said?

• True

• False