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Which sentence correctly reports the statement: 'I will meet you here tomorrow,' she said?
Which sentence correctly reports the statement: 'I will meet you here tomorrow,' she said?
- She said she will meet me there the next day.
- She said she would have met me there the following day.
- She said she will meet you here tomorrow.
- She said I will meet her here tomorrow.
- She said she would meet me there the following day. (correct)
What is the correct reported question for: 'Where is the library?' he asked?
What is the correct reported question for: 'Where is the library?' he asked?
- He asked where the library is.
- He asked where was the library.
- He asked where the library was. (correct)
- He asked where the library had been.
- He asked where is the library.
Choose the correctly reported version of: 'They have been to Paris twice,' she mentioned.
Choose the correctly reported version of: 'They have been to Paris twice,' she mentioned.
- She mentioned they have been to Paris twice.
- She mentions they had been to Paris twice.
- She mentioned they had been to Paris twice. (correct)
- She mentioned they have had been to Paris twice.
- She mentioned they are being to Paris twice.
Which of the following is the correct reported speech for: 'Do you like this painting?' he asked her.
Which of the following is the correct reported speech for: 'Do you like this painting?' he asked her.
How should the following be reported: 'I am going to travel around the world next year,' he said.
How should the following be reported: 'I am going to travel around the world next year,' he said.
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Reported Speech
Reported Speech
Representing someone else's or our own speech.
Direct Speech
Direct Speech
Using the exact words someone spoke.
Example of Direct Speech
Example of Direct Speech
John said, 'I didn’t finish my project yesterday.'
Exact Words
Exact Words
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Quotation Marks
Quotation Marks
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Study Notes
- Reported speech represents the speech of other people or what we say ourselves.
Direct Speech
- Direct speech uses the exact words someone used, or how you remember their words.
- Example: John said, "I didn't finish my project yesterday."
Indirect Speech
- Indirect speech uses our own words, which requires back shifting the tense.
- It also involves changing the reporting verb, and the time and place references.
- Example: John said (that) he hadn't finished his project the day before.
- If the information in direct speech is still true no tense change is needed, especially for general facts.
- No tense change occurs when "says" is the reporting verb.
- Example: Direct speech: She said, 'The sea is blue.'
- Indirect Speech: She said (that) the sea is blue.
Verb Tense Shift in Reported Speech
- Simple present changes to simple past like 'think' becomes 'thought.'
- Present continuous changes to past continuous like 'is thinking' becomes 'was thinking'.
- Past continuous changes 'was thinking'.
- Simple Past changes to past perfect 'thought' becomes something.
- Present perfect changes to past perfect like 'has thought' to 'had thought'.
- Past perfect changes to had thought.
Time Reference Changes in Reported Speech
- "ago" changes to something else.
- yesterday
- last week
- now
- this afternoon
- today
- tonight
- tomorrow
- next week
Place Reference Changes in Reported Speech
- this
- these
- here
- come
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Explore the rules of reported speech, differentiating between direct and indirect speech. Understand tense shifts, reporting verbs, and time/place reference changes. Learn when tense changes are unnecessary, especially with the reporting verb "says" or general facts.
