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    This document discusses reporting what someone else has said by using reported speech. It notes that reported speech is used to tell someone else what another person said without using their exact words. When reporting statements, questions, commands or requests, there are certain changes that are made such as changing verb tenses and changing interrogative questions to statements using if/whether. Reporting the words of others accurately while making these necessary grammatical changes is an important part of using reported speech.

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    Reported speech

    Statements, questions,
    commands and requests

    Page 1
    Statements

    • Ken: “I had a terrible row with Pauline a few


    days ago and she has kicked me out.”

    • Mike told Isobel that Mike had had a terrible


    row with Pauline a few days before and she
    had kicked him out.

    What differences can you see in


    these two sentences?

    Page 2
    Statements

    • We use reported speech when we are telling


    someone what another person said or thought,
    but do not use their exact words.
    • When we report a statement, we use reported
    verbs such as say, tell, explain, inform, state,
    decide etc. often followed by that.

    Page 3
    Changes in reported speech

    Page 4
    Tense change

    • Present Simple Past Simple


    • Present Continuous Past Continuous
    • Present Perfect Past Perfect
    • Past Simple Past Perfect
    • Future Conditional

    Page 5
    Questions

    • Mike: “What are you going to do?”


    • Mike asked Ken what he was going to do.
    • Mike: “Are you all right, Ken?”
    • Mike asked Ken if he was all right.

    What differences can you see


    in these sentences?

    Page 6
    Questions

    • In reported –wh questions, we us


    the wh- word + the subject + the verb.
    • In reported yes/no questions, we use if/whether +
    the subject + the verb.
    • We do not use the interrogative
    form of the verb: do/does/did
    • As it is an indirect question, no
    question marks are used.
    • We use reported verbs: ask, wonder, want to know
    etc.

    Page 7
    Commands and requests

    • Ken: “Don’t spread it around, Mike.”


    • Ken asked Mike not to spread it around.
    • Mike advised Ken:”Make it up with Pauline!”
    • Mike advised Ken to make it up with Pauline.

    Page 8
    Commands and requests

    • When we report requests, orders, advice or


    warnings we use verbs such as advice, ask,
    beg, tell, order, etc, followed by an infinitive.
    • NB In negative requests/commands use NOT
    before TO.

    Page 9
    Thanks for attention!

    Page 10

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