REPORTED SPEECH
• Reported statements
• Reported questions
Teacher: Ana Furtado

Reported Speech
I have to
study.
Direct Speech: “I have to study”
Reported Speech: She said she had to study.

Reported Statements
The restaurant is great.
She said that
the restaurant
was great.

Reported Statements
I will cook the dinner.
She said
she would
cook the
dinner.

Verb Changes
Direct Speech Reported Speech
Present Simple: I visit Past Simple: He visited
Present Continuous: I am Past Continuous: He was visiting
visiting
Past Simple. I visited Past Perfect: He had visited
Past Continuous: I was visiting Past Perfect Continuous: He had
been visiting
Present Perfect: I have visited Past Perfect: He had visited
Present Perfect Continuous: I Past Perfect Continuous: He had
have been visiting been visiting
Future: I will visit Conditional: He would visit
Future: I am going to visit Future in the Past: He was going
to visit

Other Changes
Direct Speech Reported Speech
Today That day
Yesterday The day before
Tomorrow The next / the following day
Next week / year The folowing week / year
Last week / year The previous week / year

Reported Questions
The word order should be: subject + verb.
We don’t use a question mark.
Where do you live?
She
asked me
where I
lived.

Reported Questions
If the question doesn’t have; why, who, where, when...
put if or whether.
Do you want to save the Earth?
He asked
me if I
wanted to
save the
Earth.

Change to Reported Speech:
1. Lisa - I’m hungry.
2. Charles – I like cheese burgers.
3. Jim – I will go to London.
4. Peter – Tina bought a house.
5. Mark – I’ve been to the dentist.
6. Thomas – The aeroplane is going to crash.

Change to Reported Questions:
1. Roy – Is anything wrong?
2. Girl – Where is the cinema?
3. Lisa – Was the food nice?
4. Mother – Where is the milk?
5. Teacher – Have you done your homework?
6. Lucy – Who is that man?