REPORTED SPEECH

REPORTED SPEECH

1. Usage:

   • 1. Give someone a telephone message
     • 2. Tell someone news that we heard from someone else
       • 3. To report something that happened earlier

2. Reported Speech changes

   • Backshift of tenses
     • Pronouns: Direct Speech or Indirect Speech
       • Place and Time Expressions
         • Examples
           • "We're living with our parents" they said -------- They said that they were living with their parents
             • "I will lend you my doll next week" she told me --------She told me that she would lend me her doll next week
               • "The results will be announced tomorrow" they said ------ They said that the results would be announcesd the day after
                 • "All my life I've had a temper and I got into fights al school and university" she said ---------- She said that all her live she had had a temper and she got into fights at school and university.

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