اللغة الإنجليزية 9 فصل ثاني

التاسع

Statements

Steps:

1. Changing the pronouns:

What is Reported speech?

It’s when you talk the speaker’s words in “quote” and change it into reported speech e.g. He said…….. She said………

speech: Direct

Mary said, “I have a job for you.

speech: Report

She said she had a job for me.

When you change the speaker’s words in “… ” to reported speech, you need to keep these two things in mind

► You need a reporting verb like say or tell.

► You have to change the tense and the pronoun too.

The different between say and tell.

Say focuses on the words someone said ( to say something

Say

Direct speech:

Sara said, ‘ I love you, mommy’

Report speech:

She said that she loved her mommy.

Tell focuses on the message or content of what someone said.

To tell someone something

Someone = object pronoun: me, him, her, them, us.

Ex: Jana told me that she was happy living in Canada.

Changing the tense

Direct speech	Report speech
Present simple Past simple Present perfect Present continuous Past continuous	Past simple Past perfect Past perfect Past continuous Past perfect continuous

2. Changing Time and Place in Reported Speech

Now	Then
Today	That day
Tomorrow	The next day / The following day
Yesterday	The previous day
Tonight	That night
Last week	The week before
Next week	The week after
Last month	The previous month
Next month	The following month
Last year	The previous year
Next year	The following year
Ago	Before
Thus	So

3. changing the first verb tense

was

are

were

do does	did
have has	had
will	would
shall	should
can	could
may	might
must	had to
was were	had been
had	had had
did	had done
Would Should Could Might Had to	NO CHANGE
verb 1 verb+s	verb 2

verb 2	had + verb 3
didn't + verb 1	hadn't +verb 3

A few examples to show you how reported speech can be written.