This document provides information on reported speech in English. It discusses using "to say" and "to tell" to report direct and indirect speech, and how tenses, pronouns, adverbs of time and place are changed when moving from direct to indirect speech. Examples are given of direct and indirect statements and questions.

1. Reported Speech
TO SAY per
• Introdurre il discorso diretto
- Quando è espressa o meno la persona cui si parla
• Introdurre il discorso indiretto
- Quando NON è espressa la persona cui si parla
Peter said: “Clare is still sleeping”
Peter said to me: “Clare is still sleeping”
Peter said (that) Clare was still sleeping
TO TELL per
• Introdurre il discorso indiretto
- Quando è espressa la persona cui si parla
Peter told me (that) Clare was still sleeping
Discorso diretto Discorso indiretto
Present simple
I’m hungry
Present continuous
Bill is sleeping
Past simple
I met him yesterday
Past continuous
I was reading
Present perfect
I have received his mail
Present perfect continuous
I have been working all day
Future with am/is are going to
It is going to rain again
Future simple
I will see him tomorrow
Future continuous
I will be driving to London tomorrow morning
Past simple
He said I was hungry
Past continuous
He said Bill was sleeping
Past perfect
He said he had met him the day before
Past continuous
He said he was reading
Past perfect
He said he had received his mail
Past perfect continuous
He said he had been working all day
Future in the past with was/were going to
He said it was going to rain again
Present conditional
He said he would see him the following day
Present conditional continuous
He said he would be driving to London the following
morning
Discorso diretto Discorso indiretto
I/you/we
me
my/your
our
mine/yours
myself
this/these
he/she/they
him/her
his/her
their
his/hers
himself/herself
that/those
Discorso diretto Discorso indiretto
here
now
tomorrow
today/tonight
yesterday
ago
next week/month/year
last week/month/year
there
then
the following day
that day/that night
before
the following week/month/year
the previous week/month/year/the week/month/year
before

2. NEL RIPORTARE DOMANDE NON SI USA LA COSTRUZIONE INTERROGATIVA
• Nel riportare Yes/no questions la domanda indiretta è introdotta da if/whether
Are you tired? He asked (me) if I was tired
• Nel riportare Wh-questions la domanda indiretta comincia con la stessa question word
Where do you live? He asked me where I lived