Report sentences

1. Reporter Speech
(Affirmative Statements)

2. Objectives:
At the end of the class the student should be able to
Report conversations.
Use reported speech as part of his dayli vocabulary

3. LOOK AT THE EXAMPLE:
I will call
you
tomorrow
He said that he
would call me the
next day
….Next MondayFriday

4. When do we use it?
Reported Speech
Is used to tell what someone said, to reported something .
Diana said: “ We are going to the museum this afternoon”
REPORTED SPEECH
Diana said that they were going to the museum that afternoon.

5. Changes
 Types of changes:
Verb Tense
Time and place adverbial expressions
Logical change of pronouns
 Example
Direct: Cecil said “ They are cookin for me tomorrow”
Reported: Cecil said “ They were cooking for her the following day”

6. Verb Tenses
DIRECT SPEECH  REPORTED SPEECH
 PRESENT 
 We study
 We are studying
 PAST 
 We studied
 We were studying
 FUTURE 
 We will study
 PAST
 She said that they studied
 She said that they were studying
 PAST PERFECT
 She said that they had studied
 She said that they had been studying
 CONDITIONAL
 She said that they would study

7. Change in Modals
DIRECT SPEECH REPORTED SPEECH
CAN COULD
MAY MIGHT
WILL WOULD
MUST / HAVE TO MUST / HAD TO

8. DIRECT SPEECH REPORTED SPEECH
Now Then
Today That day
Tonight That night
Yesterday The previous day / the day before
Last week The previous week / the week before
A __________ ago The previous ______ / the _____ before
Tomorrow
The following day / the day after / the next
day
Next ___________ The following ________ / the _______ after
Here There
This
These
That
Those
Time and Place Adverb Change

9. Examples

10. https://www.ejerciciosinglesonline.com/new-exercises/ex1-estilo-
indirecto-reported-speech/
https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/reported-
speech/exercises?10
http://www.englisch-
hilfen.de/en/exercises/reported_speech/statements.htm
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