REPORTED SPEECH

Statements
1. Direct speech
  1. We lived in China for five years.
  2. Describes when something is being repeated exactly as it was
2. Indirect speech
  1. She told me they'd lived in China for five years.
  2. Instead of expressing someone's comments or speech by directly repeating them, it involves reporting or describing what was said.
Questions
1. When we report questions, the subject comes before the verb
2. When reporting questions we don’t use the auxiliary verb do, except in negative questions.
3. We report yes/no questions with if or whether.
4. When we report questions with who, what or which + to be + object, the verb be can come before or after the object.
5. Example
  1. Direct speech: Where are you going?
  2. Indirect speech: He asked me where I was going.
Reported speech is when we talk about what somebody else said.
Reporting verbs
1. Reporting verbs are verbs that we use to communicate ideas, actions or intentions of people at a given moment.
  1. Example
    1. Direct speech: You should really avoid driving through the city centre,” he said.
    2. He advised me against driving through the city centre.
Commands and requests
1. Reported Commands and Requests are formed using the to-infinitive and not to-infinitive.
2. The reporting verbs for the commands and requests are: order, shout, demand, warn, beg, command, tell, insist, beseech, threaten, implore, ask and propose.
3. Example
  1. Direct speech: Don’t answer the phone
  2. Indirect speech: She told me not to answer the phone.
Bibliography: https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/es/grammar/intermediate-to-upper-intermediate/reported-speech-1-statements https://7esl.com/reported-commands-and-requests/ https://kseacademy.com/reporting-verbs/

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