Tayyorladi: verb used in indirect speech PLAN: 1.What are Direct and Indirect speech? 2.Reported speech: indirect speech . 3. Predicate . 4. Indirect speech: past continuous reporting verb. What are Direct and Indirect speech? - What are Direct and Indirect speech?
- In English, there are two ways how we can tell what another person said. Two ways you can say what someone else has said before.
- Direct Speech
- Indirect (Reported) Speech
- Note: Indirect speech in different textbooks can be called differently: Indirect Speech or Reported Speech. But these two names mean the same.
- Indirect Speech = Reported Speech
Reported speech: indirect speech - Reported speech: indirect speech
- Grammar > Using English > Reported speech > Reported speech: indirect speech
- from English Grammar Today
- Indirect speech focuses more on the content of what someone said rather than their exact words. In indirect speech, the structure of the reported clause depends on whether the speaker is reporting a statement, a question or a command.
Quotation marks and comma - In direct speech, we use a comma to separate the speaker from what he is saying. Direct speech (what the speaker says) is in quotation marks.
- When we translate direct speech into indirect speech, we remove quotes and commas.
- Jessica says, “I’m from the future.”
- We retell Jessica’s words: She said that she was from the future.
Predicate - Predicate
- If in direct speech in the main sentence the predicate is in Past Simple, then in indirect speech we use the agreement rules.
- We put the conjunction “that” in front of indirect speech.
- Note: We may not use the conjunction that after verbs such as:
- to know
- to think
- to say
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