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Unit 10: Grammar Reported Speech: by Shalevska Elena

This document discusses reported speech, which is used to report what someone else has said. It explains that when reporting speech, the tense shifts backward by one tense. For example, "I like pizza" becomes "He said he liked pizza." The document provides examples of direct and reported speech using different tenses and verbs. It also includes exercises for the reader to practice changing direct speech to reported speech.

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Unit 10: Grammar Reported Speech: by Shalevska Elena

This document discusses reported speech, which is used to report what someone else has said. It explains that when reporting speech, the tense shifts backward by one tense. For example, "I like pizza" becomes "He said he liked pizza." The document provides examples of direct and reported speech using different tenses and verbs. It also includes exercises for the reader to practice changing direct speech to reported speech.

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Unit 10: Grammar

Reported
Speech
By Shalevska Elena
Reported speech is used to give a report on what
another person said.

When do we use reported speech?

Sometimes someone says a sentence, for example


"I'm going to the cinema tonight". Later, maybe we
want to tell someone else what the first person said.

Here's how it works:

We use a 'reporting verb' like 'say' or 'tell’ in present or


past, then we go “one tense backwards” like:
Reported
Speech Direct:
Reported:
I like pizza, Teo said.
Teo said that he liked pizza.
Reported speech or indirect speech is often used in English.

Though there are some rules that are to be followed,


making sentences in reported speech is really easy.
Tense change
Direct Reported
Present Simple Past Simple
Present Continuous Past Continuous
Past Simple Past Perfect
Present Perfect Past Perfect
Will Would
Can Could
Must Had to
Am/is/are going to Was/were going to
Some more examples
Direct Reported
I like pizza She said she liked pizza
I am working He said he was working.
I went to the gym yesterday. He said he had gone to the gym the
day before.
I have seen that movie. Lea said that she had seen that movie.
I will go there tomorrow. My mum said she would go there the
next day.
I can finish it today. Tony said that he could finish it that
day.
I must hurry up She said she had to hurry up!
Other changes
Your turn
1. I must start exercising more, Tina said.
2. I am really hungry, Tom said.
3. I am waiting in line, Victor told me.
4. I like this song, Anna said.
5. I don’t speak French, my brother said.
6. The film has already started, John said.
7. I will do the dishes, my sister said.
8. It must be correct, the boy said.
9. I am going to go to bed, she said.
10. He doesn’t eat meat, his mother told us.

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