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REPORTED SPEECH, Created by: Kumie Joubert-van Niekerk
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REPORTED SPEECH
Tenses change to:
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‘Will’ becomes ‘Would’
We’ll email you the class lists.
- He said they’d email us the class lists.
When reporting speech:
- tense of the verb goes back 1 tense
- usual past tense
“You need to do your lesson plans” becomes
- “He said we needed to do our lesson plans”
- (present tense changes to past simple)
- unless something is always true
“He said they always pay our salaries at the end of the month”
- (this implies you believe the person you are reporting)
“He said they always paid our salaries at the end of the month, but I haven’t received anything”
- (this implies you don’t believe the person).
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Created by: Kumie Joubert-van Niekerk
Info extracted from:
[i-to-i Learning.teflcourses.com]
(https://www.i-to-i.com/)
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