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1 April 2025

Fill in the gaps: You use 1.___ to repeat the direct words that someone has said. Sometimes these sentences are placed between quotation marks. You use 2. ___speech to retell what someone else has said. Because the sentences have already been spoken, reported speech is often in the past tense.

1. direct speech

2. indirect/reported speech

You usually change the tense when you change a sentence from direct speech to indirect speech

1. True
2. False

Direct speech or indirect speech?: 'I use a computer at home,' she said.

Direct or indirect speech?: She said that she used a computer at home.

How did the tense change in both sentences? (I use a computer at home,' she said. / She said that she used a computer at home.

it went from present simple to past simple. So, when you change a sentence from direct speech to indirect speech, you GENERALLY NOT ALWAYS change the tense from present (simple, continuous, perfect etc.) to past (simple, continuous, perfect etc.)

‘I am typing an email,’ he said.

1. Direct speech
2. Indirect/reported speech

vraag ze na dit antwoord welke tense dit is. (present continuous)

He said he was typing an email.

1. Direct speech
2. Indirect/reported speech

vraag ze na dit antwoord welke tense dit is (past continuous) leg ze dus uit dat het van present naar past ging

They said that they had bought an electric car.

1. Direct speech
2. Indirect/reported speech

ze vragen welke tense dit is (past perfect; had + bought)

'We bought an electric car,' they said.

1. Direct speech
2. Indirect speech

ze vragen welke tense dit was ( past simple - ze zeggen dat de tense hier van past simple in de direct speech naar past perfect in de indirect speech ging)

What else is important to change in indirect speech: ‘I love my new phone,’ she said. / She said that she loved her new phone.

ze zeggen dat naast de tense er ook iets anders belangrijks is om te veranderen als je van direct speech naar indirect speech gaat or vice versa: de possesive pronouns (my phone -> her phone)

Write down one sentence using direct speech and convert that sentence to indirect speech AND give me an English word you just learned and also the Dutch translation of it.