REPORTED SPEECH

We use reported speech to:

• talk about spontaneous situations.

• talk about something that someone has already told us.

• talk about actions in progress at a certain time in the future

Is it optional to use "that" in reported speech?

• Yes

• No

• I don't know

What do you have to bear in mind in Reported Speech?

• Type of sentence

  Reporting verbs

  Changes

• Questions

  Commands

  Statements

• Expressions of time

• Changes in verbal tenses

What are the changes you need to pay attention to?

• Types of sentences

• Reporting verbs

• Verbal tenses

  All references to person (personal pronouns, possessive)

  Time and place expressions

• Commands, requests and suggestions

Reporting verbs...

• are different depending on the type of sentence

• are always the same

• always go in the present

The basic reporting verbs for statements are

• ask, want to know, wonder

• tell and say

• advise, warn, explain

• invite and promise

With "tell" (told)...

• You don't need to add the person

• You always need to add the person

Commands and requests in Reported Speech...

• Don't change

• follow the pattern

  reporting verb+person+ TO infinitive

True or False?

The reported speech is usually one tense back into the past:

Pablo, "I like oranges". Pablo said that he liked oranges.

• True

• False

Present simple changes into...

• Past simple

• Past continuous

• Past perfect

• Past perfect continuous