This document discusses reported speech and how to use it properly. It explains that reported speech is used to talk about other people's words, either at the time they spoke or in the past. It provides rules for changing verb tenses, pronouns, and adverbs when using reported speech for statements, questions, and commands. Specifically, statements are introduced with "that"; yes/no questions with "if"; WH- questions with the WH- word; and commands/requests with "to" or "not to".

1. REPORTED SPEECH

2. When do we use it?
• When we want to talk about other
people’s words. (At the same time
(present no backshift) or after
the person said it (past
backshift)
• “ I will go back home tomorrow” -
she said.
• “ Go down ”- she says.

3. Statements
1- Sentences with a Subject + Verb + Object.
They are introduced by --
(THAT)
1- We lived in chine for 5 years- She told
me.
She told me that they had live in China for
5 years.
(Notice verb tenses changes, subject
pronouns and possessives) Adverbs

4. QUESTIONS
• A) Yes/No question  will be introduced
by an “if” (no that) in questions. No
auxiliaries, no inversion.
- “ Is he a good teacher?”-Mary asked me.
(IF+S+V)
- Mary asked me if he was a good teacher.
• B) WH- question  Will be introduced by a
wh-(no that) in questions. No auxiliaries,
no inversion either.
- ”Where do you live?”- She asked me. (Wh-
+S+V)
- She asked me where I lived.

5. COMMANDS /REQUESTS
• Imperative form. In these
sentences we use a (to inf/ not
to inf) in the reported speech.
( never use THAT)
• “Go ahead”- the teacher said to
the boy.
• The teacher said to the boy to
go ahead.
• “Don’t speak to him”- She
ordered me.

6. VERB TENSES AND ADVERBS CHANGES