indirect speech

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 4,5

Direct and Indirect speech

When do you use indirect speech?

What is it?

Reporting that someone else said something...

Sandy: "I have a lot of homework."

Sandy said (that) she had a lot of homework. 

Tom: "We went out last noght."

Tom said (that) they had gone out last night. 

Four steps ;-)

1.  Identify the tense

         2. Change the pronouns

                          3. Change the time expressions

4. Use a reporting verb (said, told, asked)

What changes?

• Sentence in present simple -> past simple
  
• Sentence in present continuous -> past continuous

• Sentence in past simple -> past perfect
  
• Sentence in present perfect -> past perfect

Turn into indirect speech:
He said, “I have got a toothache”.

1. He said that I had got a toothache.
2. He said that he has got a toothache.
3. He said that he had got a toothache.
4. he said that you have got a toothache

Turn into indirect speech:
She said to me, “You are my only friend.”

1. She told me that you were my only friend
2. She told you that I am her only friend.
3. She told me that she was my only friend.
4. She told me that I was her only friend.

Mike: "I have the flu."
Mike said (that) ....

Jen: "We all went to the party yesterday." Jen said (that) ....

Mary: "Jenny has a crush on Tom."
Mary said (that) ....

Hailey: "I am doing my homework here." Hailey said (that) ...

Mrs Janssen: "The test is next week."
Mrs Janssen said (that) ....