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    The document discusses how to report speech that was said in the past or by another person. It provides examples of changing direct speech into reported speech by modifying verb tenses and pronouns. Time expressions like "now" become "then" in reported speech. Requests and questions also have specific rules for changing to reported speech involving use of "if" or keeping the interrogative word but removing inversion and question marks.

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    REPORTED SPEECH (2)

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    The document discusses how to report speech that was said in the past or by another person. It provides examples of changing direct speech into reported speech by modifying verb tenses and pronouns. Time expressions like "now" become "then" in reported speech. Requests and questions also have specific rules for changing to reported speech involving use of "if" or keeping the interrogative word but removing inversion and question marks.

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    REPORTED SPEECH

    When you tell somebody what you or a person said before.


    DIRECT SPEECH REPORTED SPEECH
    Tom: “I work in a company”. Tom said he worked in a company.
    Tom: “I worked in a company”.
    Tom: “I have worked in a company”. He said he had worked in a company.
    Tom: “I had worked in a company”.
    Tom: “I will work in a company”. He said he would work in a company.
    Tom: “I can work in a company”. He said he could work in a company.
    Tom: “I may work in a company”. He said he might work in a company.
    Tom: “I would/could/might/should/ought to He said he would/could/might/should/ought to
    work in a company”. work in a company.
    Tom: “I’m working in a company”. He said he was working in a company.
    Tom: “I was working in a company”.
    Tom: “I have been working in a company”. He said he had been working in a company.
    Tom: “I had been working in a company”.

    Time Expressions
    DIRECT SPEECH REPORTED SPEECH
    now then/ at that time
    ago before
    this that
    today that day, yesterday
    tonight that night / last night
    tomorrow the next day / the following day
    the day after tomorrow In two days time / two days later
    yesterday The day before / the previous day
    The day before yesterday Two days before
    Last night The night before / the previous night
    This week That week
    Last week/month/year The previous week/month/year
    Next week/month/year The following week/month/year
    Two minutes ago Two minutes before
    In one hour One hour later
    here there
    REPORTED SPEECH WITH INFINITIVES

    She said: “Get there early”. She said: “Don’t come over”.

    she told me to get there she told me not to come over.


    ask you early. ask you
    him him
    her her
    us us
    them them

    she said to get there she said not to come over.


    early.

    If you place the negative before “tell, ask or say”, the meaning is different.
    She didn’t tell me to come over. (She said nothing about it)
    She told me not to come over. (She said I shouldn’t come over)

    REPORTED SPEECH – QUESTIONS


    Yes/no questions: we will use IF and the subject-verb inversion and the question
    mark disappear.

    Example:
    He asked: “Is anyone here?”
    He asked if anyone was there.

    “Did you see the accident?”, asked the policeman asked.


    The policeman asked if he had seen the accident.

    WH- questions: the interrogative word remains, and the subject-verb inversion and
    the question mark disappear.

    Example:
    “Where does he live?”, said Mary.
    Mary asked where he lived.

    She asked me: “What do you want?”


    She asked me what I wanted.

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