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I'm exhausted. I don't think I can go any further. I really need to stop for a rest. Peter: Don't worry. I'm not surprised you're tired. I'm tired too. I'll tell you what, let's see if we can find a place to sit down, and then we can stop and have our picnic. Reported speech (summary):
We use reported speech when we want to tell someone what someone said. We usually use a reporting verb (e.g. say, tell, ask, ... you also have to think about changing other things, like pronouns and adverbs of time and place. 'We went yesterday.' > She said they had been the day before. 'I’ll come tomorrow.' > He said he’d come the next day.
Introduction. In English grammar, we use reported speech to say what another person has said. We can use their exact words with quotation marks, this is known as direct speech, or we can use indirect speech.In indirect speech, we change the tense and pronouns to show that some time has passed.Indirect speech is often introduced by a reporting verb or phrase such as ones below.
Reported speech - time and place - Quiz. 1) today a) that day b) last day c) yesterday d) the day before 2) yesterday a) yesterday b) that night c) the day before today d) the day before 3) tonight a) a night ago b) that night c) there night d) tonight 4) a week ago a) last week b) that week c) at that week d) a week earlier 5) here a) here b ...
time (now, tomorrow) place (here, this room) direct speech. reported speech. She said, "I saw Mary yesterday." She said she had seen Mary the day before. He said: "My mother is here." He said that his mother was there. Don't confuse time with tense .
Rewrite the demands/requests in indirect speech. The passenger requested the taxi driver, “Stop the car.”. → The passenger requested the taxi driver . to + same wording as in direct speech. The mother told her son, “Don’t be so loud.”. → The mother told her son . not to + same wording as in direct speech, but remove don’t.
place and time expression; 1- Pronouns. In reported speech, you often have to change the pronoun depending on who says what. Example: She says, “My dad likes roast chicken.” => She says that her dad likes roast chicken. 2- Tenses. If the sentence starts in the present, there is no backshift of tenses in reported speech.
