Unit 5
Lesson 2
SB page 45
GRAMMAR
Reported Speech
Statements
Steps:
1. Changing the pronouns:
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2. Changing the first verb tense
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is am |
was |
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are |
were |
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do does |
did |
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have has |
had |
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will |
would |
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shall |
should |
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can |
could |
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may |
might |
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must |
had to |
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was were |
had been |
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had |
had had |
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did |
had done |
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would should could maight had to |
NO CHANGE |
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verb 1 verb+s |
verb 2 |
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verb 2 |
had + verb 3 |
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didn't + verb 1 |
hadn't +verb 3 |
3. Changing Time and Place in Reported Speech
- Now –> Then
- Today –> That day
- Here –> There
- This –> That
- Tomorrow –> The following day/ The next day/ The day after
- Next week –> The following week/ The next week/ The week after
- Yesterday –> The previous day/ The day before
- Last week –> The previous week/ The week before
- Ago –> Previously/ Before
- Tonight –> That night
NOTE
- Reported speech: He told me he should go to the park.
- Reported speech: He said he should go to the park.
Both of these sentences make grammatical sense, because we added the pronoun ‘me’ after ‘told’ in the first sentence, but we didn’t after ‘said’ in the second one. Here is the incorrect versions so you can see why it doesn’t work grammatically:
- Incorrect reported speech: He told he should go to the park.
- Incorrect reported speech: He said me he should go to the park.
In order to make the top one make sense, we need to add ‘me’ like we did in the correct examples above. In order to make the second one make sense, we would either have to remove ‘me’ like we did in the correct one above, or we would have to add another word. So that it looked like this.
- Reported speech: He said to me he should go to the park.