Reported Speech

FORMS AND USES

Reported Speech

We call it also 'indirect speech' and it is used to talk about different points in time in the past. When we use some verbal tenses in direct speech, the tense changes in reported speech in some cases:

INTRODUCTORY VERBS

Verb + To + Infinitive

Verb + Indirect Object + To + Infinitive

Verb + -ing

Verb + That + Clause

Verb + How + Clause / Wonder

CHANGES IN REPORTED SPEECH

There are some structures that do not change in reported speech:

Pronouns

Time Markers

When you use time and place markers you have to be careful, because they will be different in indirect speech:

Place Markers

Questions

Orders and Requests

ACTIVITIES

Reported Speech

Reported Speech Rules (British Council)
Reported Speech Statements (British Council)
Reported Speech Questions (British Council)
Daisy's Summer Job (Listening, British Council)
Reported Speech Activities (Pefect English Grammar)

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