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4.2 Reported speech, last night, last year, now, today, yesterday,…
4.2 Reported speech
you can hear it
directly from someone
or
you can hear someone tell you what some other person had said.
That’s the difference between direct and reported speech.
Direct speech and reported speech
Direct speech tells you
directly what is being said or what was said.
That is indicated by the
use of quotation marks (“ “).
The main clause tells you who is or was speaking.
The main clause and
direct speech
are separated with a comma (,).
The reporter said, "Finland wins!"
When direct speech changes into reported speech, there will be some changes in the
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Reported speech
tells you later what someone said.
I heard that the reporter said that Finland won.
If the main clause is
in the present tense,
the following changes occur:
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last night
the night before
last year
the year before
now
then
today
the day
yesterday
the day before
”My sister saw you here
yesterday.”
Donna tells me that her sister saw me there
the day before.
tomorrow
the next day
the following day
here
there
this place
that place
these woods
those woods
present tense
past tense
The teacher said, "These two exercises
will
be your homework for tomorrow."
The teacher said that those two exercises
would
be our homework for the next day.
past tense
past tense or past perfect tense
perfect tense
past perfect tense
past perfect tense
past perfect tense
future tense
conditional
We added IF to this sentence
Direct speech
Reported speech
Direct speech
Reported speech
Pronouns and expressions of time and place
Tenses
“What time do we have to be at the meeting this evening?”