This document discusses how to report imperative sentences, or commands, in indirect speech. Imperative sentences use orders or commands, while indirect speech reports what was said without using exact words. The direct speech uses quotes, while the indirect speech converts the imperative sentence into the infinitive form without quotes. Several examples are provided of direct imperative sentences and how they are reported in indirect speech by changing the imperative verb to the infinitive. Key points are that indirect speech reports the meaning without exact words and imperative verbs become the infinitive form.

1. INDIRECT SPEECH:
IMPERATIVES

2. FIRST REMEMBER THIS:
An IMPERATIVE is
an ORDER or a COMMAND.
Un IMPERATIVO es una ORDEN o un MANDATO

3. You have to go to jail
This sentence is an
IMPERATIVE
sentence.
An IMPERATIVE is
an ORDER or a COMMAND.

4. You have to go to jail

5. You have to go to jail
This is
IMPERATIVE
DIRECT SPEECH.

6. You have to go to jail
The judge said to
go to jail
This is
IMPERATIVE
DIRECT SPEECH.

7. You have to go to jail
The judge said to
go to jail
This is
IMPERATIVE
DIRECT SPEECH.
This is
IMPERATIVE
INDIRECT SPEECH.

8. IMPERATIVE
INDIRECT SPEECH.
IMPERATIVE
DIRECT SPEECH.

9. IMPERATIVE
INDIRECT SPEECH.
IMPERATIVE
DIRECT SPEECH.
The judge said, “You have to go to jail”. The judge said to go to jail.
The DIRECT SPEECH uses the EXACT
SAME WORDS BETWEEN QUOTES (“ “).
The INDIRECT SPEECH uses the
IMPERATIVE IN INFINITIVE.
El DIRECT SPEECH usa las mismas palabras que se reportan entre
comillas.
El INDIRECT SPEECH convierte la oración IMPERATIVA en
forma INFINITIVA. NO usa comillas.

10. Let’s see more examples…
Imperative
Sentence (original
sentence)
Imperative Sentence
in indirect speech
(reported sentence)
Do your homework!
His mother said to do his homework.
Imperative action in
infinitive form.

11. Let’s see more examples…
Imperative
Sentence (original
sentence)
Imperative Sentence
in indirect speech
(reported sentence)
Run 5 kilometers!
The soldier said to run 5 kilometers.
Imperative action in
infinitive form.

12. Let’s see more examples…
Imperative
Sentence (original
sentence)
Imperative Sentence
in indirect speech
(reported sentence)
Chop the tomato.
Her mother said to chop the tomato.
Imperative action in
infinitive form.

13. Let’s see more examples…
Imperative
Sentence (original
sentence)
Imperative Sentence
in indirect speech
(reported sentence)
Hello Yimishi! Come
to my house for
dinner tonigh.
Han-Yo told Yimishi to come to his
house for dinner.
Imperative action in
infinitive form.
Han-Yo
Yimishi
Hello Han! Ok,
thanks! I’ll be there
at 8:00.

14. Let’s see more examples…
Imperative
Sentence (original
sentence)
Imperative Sentence
in indirect speech
(reported sentence)
Stop the car! I need
to see your driving
license!
The policeman said to stop the car
because he needs to see the driving
license.
Imperative action in
infinitive form.

15. Let’s see more examples…
Imperative
Sentence (original
sentence)
Imperative Sentence
in indirect speech
(reported sentence)
Hi! Please buy me
some soda and
potato chips on your
way home from
work.
He asked her to buy some soda and
potato chips on her way from work.
Imperative action in
infinitive form.
Frank
Gloria
Ok, I will do it when
I finish work.

16. Let’s see more examples…
Imperative
Sentence (original
sentence)
Imperative Sentence
in indirect speech
(reported sentence)
The reporter said not to come to
Egypt. The situation is very violent
there.
Imperative action in
infinitive form.
Don’t come to
Egypt! The
situation is very
violent here!

17. Let’s see more examples…
Imperative
Sentence (original
sentence)
Imperative Sentence
in indirect speech
(reported sentence)
The policeman said not to go that way
because there is an accident.
Imperative action in
infinitive form.
Don’t go that way! The
road is closed because
there is an accident.

18. Remember!
Don’t go to the park He said NOT TO GO to the park
Negative form of an
infinitive:
NOT + INFINITIVE