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REPORTED SPEECH: first part

REPORTED SPEECH: first part. WHAT PEOPLE SAID. TWO WAYS OF SAYING WHAT HAPPENED. DIRECT SPEECH My boyfriend said: “I need to tell you something today”. My mother told me: “You aren’t studying now.” My father announced: “We will go to the stadium tomorrow”.

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REPORTED SPEECH: first part

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  1. REPORTED SPEECH: first part WHAT PEOPLE SAID

  2. TWO WAYS OF SAYING WHAT HAPPENED • DIRECT SPEECH • My boyfriend said: “I need to tell you something today”. • My mother told me: “You aren’t studying now.” • My father announced: “We will go to the stadium tomorrow”. • My teacher pointed out: “You must be careful with this material” • REPORTED SPEECH • My boyfriend said that he needed to tell me something that day. • My mother told me that I wasn’t studying then. • My father announced that we would go to the stadium the following day. • My teacher pointed out that we had to be careful with that material.

  3. GENERAL DIFFERENCES DIRECT SPEECH REPORTED SPEECH It incorporates what a person said into another sentence. It changes tenses and adverbial one step into the past. After the reporting verb we use the connector “that” • It reproduces what a person said with the same words, same tenses and adverbials. • Punctuation: we use the column (:) and the inverted commas (“ …”) to introduce what somebody said.

  4. DIFFERENCES IN TENSES

  5. DIFFERENCES IN ADVERBIALS, DETERMINERS AND PRONOUNS

  6. SIMILARITIES: reported verbs • They are the verbs that introduce the sentence. • Say, tell, declare, explain, protest, announce, point out…

  7. REPORTED SPEECH: second part WHAT PEOPLE ASKED

  8. TWO WAYS OF ASKING ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED • DIRECT SPEECH • My boyfriend asked: “Do you want to come to the cinema today?”. • My mother asked me: “Where have you been tonight?” • My father wanted to know: “How many subjects have you failed?” • REPORTED SPEECH • My boyfriend asked if I wanted to go to the cinema with him. • My mother asked me where I had been that night. • My father wanted to know how many subjects I had failed.

  9. GENERAL DIFFERENCES DIRECT SPEECH REPORTED SPEECH It incorporates what a person asked into another sentence. It changes tenses and adverbial one step into the past. After the reporting verb we use the connector “if” if it’s a yes/no question. If it’s a wh-question, we use the wh-word as a connector. In any case, we use the affirmative structure in the second sentence: SUB + (AUX.) + VERB + COMPLEMENTS. • It reproduces what a person asked with the same words, same tenses and adverbials. • Punctuation: we use the column (:) and the inverted commas (“ …”) to introduce what somebody said. THE CHANGES IN TENSE AND ADVERBIAL ALSO APPLY, BUT WITH AN AFFIRMATIVE STRUCTURE

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