Difference between direct an Reported speech
Direct speech
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Reported/Indirect speech
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It
is when…
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The speaker says or quotes someone.
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Someone else reports what the speaker said.
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Example
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Susan “I’m hungry”
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Susan said
she was hungry.
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¡Important!
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Direct speech uses quotation marks.
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Reported speech always have a verbs like “tell, say, ask”, and in most of the
cases in past tense.
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Verbs
you must change
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Emily: “Can you give me a paper?”
John “May I go to the toilet?”
Mary: “It must be nice to live in
Florida”
Peter: “I have to send a report”
Marc: “Will you marry me?”
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Emily asked if I could
give her some paper.
John asked if he might
go to the toilet.
Mary said it must
be nice to live in Florida.
Peter said he had to
send a report.
Marc asked me if I would
marry him.
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Exercise: ¿Direct or reported speech?
________
Alice to me “Should I wear this dress?”
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Sonia told she was going out yesterday.
________
Sebastian replied he was not paying attention.
¿When we use say or tell?
Say: (Past tense
-> Said)
We use “say/ said” when we say something to other
person, without involving them.
Example:
D.S: Michael “I like
football”.
R.S: Michael said he liked football.
Tell: (Past tense
-> Told)
We
use “tell/ told” when we say
something to someone. You can identify it when we use “told me” “told her” “told him” “told we” “told you”
Example:
D.S:
Britney “I’m going to buy you an ice
cream”.
R.S: Britney told me she was going to buy me an ice cream.
Exercise: Use say or tell.
a)
Joanna
______ me she was getting divorce.
b)
Phillip
_____ he was late.
c)
Denisse _____
Thomas he was annoying her.
Questions
Yes/ No questions:
We use “if” replacing the auxiliary verb “do/ does”
Example:
D.S: Paola asked “Do you like Ariana Grande?”
R.S: Paola asked me if
I liked
Ariana Grande.
Wh-questions:
We
rewrite the same sentence applying all the changes that you make to a normal
reported sentence, keeping the wh-question, and erasing the auxiliary verb.
Example:
D.S: Robert
“What time is it?”
R.S: Robert
asked what time it was.
Exercise: Rewrite the
question
a)
Gabriel “What is her name?”
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b)
Michelle “Can you tell me the hour?”
c) Felix “Why is he
here?”
Orders
We use orders to make someone do or stop doing something. It does not need a pronoun; sometimes you just need the imperative verb.
We use orders to make someone do or stop doing something. It does not need a pronoun; sometimes you just need the imperative verb.
Examples:
D.S: My teacher “Be quiet!”
D.S: My dad “Don’t take the remote control”
R.S: My
dad told me not to take the remote
control
Exercise: Rewrite
these orders
Mom: “Clean your room"
| Teacher “Don’t stand up while I’m talking” |
Thief: “Give me the purse”
