REPORTED SPEECH in English - Indirect Speech | Reported Speech | Direct Speech ( Free PDF & Quiz)

[Music] hello lovely students and welcome back to english with lucy today we are going to talk about reported speech reported speech can seem really complicated at first but my goal in this lesson is to make it really easy and understandable for you so that you can use it with confidence to assist you i've also created a free pdf that goes with this lesson it covers everything we're going to discuss today and it has a quiz so you can test your understanding and put what you've learned into practice one of the most important parts if you'd

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to follow a couple of simple rules number one we have to add a reporting verb number two and this one's really important we have to backshift our tenses by one and number three we have to change the pronouns this sounds very very complicated let's put it into practice it's easier to see it if we want to change that into reported speech she said that she liked chocolate we've added the reporting verb she said we've backshifted our tense like liked and we've changed the pronouns i has gone to she the most common reporting verbs are to

say and to tell which are conjugated to said and told remember to always include your reporting verbs when using reported speech a couple more examples she said that she loved the movie that here is optional she said she loved the movie she said that she loved the movie you can use whichever you'd like they said they ate breakfast they said that they ate breakfast we can also use the structure to say to someone robert said to his teacher that he finished the assignment robert said to his teacher that he had finished the assignment or alison

said to her mother that she was feeling ill when we use tell we must always remember to add in the person we're reporting to we use the structure tell plus who we're reporting to she told me that she loved the movie they told us that they had eaten breakfast so let's talk about that back shift in tenses when we use reported speech we're changing the perspective english has 12 basic tenses that can be broken down into three groups the past the present and the future it might sound like a lot of changes but i've created

a list for you you can download the pdf and keep that list with you i've also got it on screen now focus now on the past perfect and the past perfect continuous you will see that there are no changes this is because we can't really go any further back in the past i had been doing my homework lucy said that she had been doing her homework no change to the tense the future tenses are also really easy they all use will and this simply changes to wood i will be going to university next year lucy

said that she would be going to university next year i think those six tenses are a gift from the grammar gods you just have to focus on the first six i'm going to give you some examples in direct speech and i want you to change them into reported speech i'm going to give you a few seconds but feel free to pause the video let's look at the present simple to past simple for all of these i'm going to say i and you have to change it to lucy said that she so the first one i

want to buy a car you need to start it with lucy said that she i'll give you a few seconds lucy said that she wanted to buy a car present simple to past simple let's try present continuous to past continuous i am doing my homework i'll give you a couple of seconds lucy said that she was doing her homework what about present perfect to pass perfect i have finished my homework lucy said that she had finished her homework past simple to past perfect i washed the dishes lucy said that she had washed the ditches those

are the hard ones let's try a couple with will and wood i will call you later lucy said that she would call you later now as always with english there are some exceptions with reported speech we usually don't change the tense if the information is current and ongoing like a habit i love my parents lucy said that she loves her parents i still love my parents it's ongoing so we might keep it in the present tense right that is it for your introduction to reported speech now it's time to review everything you've learned and put

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