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    Verb Forms: Direct Speech Reported Speech Direct Speech Reported Speech

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    The document summarizes the key changes that are made when converting direct speech to reported speech, including changes to verb forms, pronouns, determiners, adverbs, and questions.

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    The document summarizes the key changes that are made when converting direct speech to reported speech, including changes to verb forms, pronouns, determiners, adverbs, and questions.

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    Verb Forms: Direct Speech Reported Speech Direct Speech Reported Speech

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    We use Reported Speech when we are reporting what another person says or said.

    1. Verb forms

    Direct Speech Reported Speech


    Present Simple Past Simple
    Present Continuous Past Continuous
    Future Conditional
    Imperative Infinitive

    2. Personal Pronouns (subject) Personal Pronouns (object)


    Direct Speech Reported Speech Direct Speech Reported Speech
    I He / She Me Him / Her
    You I / We You Me / Us
    He / She / It He / She / It Him / Her / It Him / Her / It
    We They Us Them
    They They Them Them

    3. Possessive determiners Possessive pronouns


    Direct Speech Reported Speech Direct Speech Reported Speech
    my his /her mine his /hers
    your my/our yours mine/ours
    his/her/its his/her/its his/hers/its his/hers/its
    our their ours theirs
    their their theirs theirs

    4. Demonstrative determiners/pronouns
    Direct Speech Reported Speech
    this that
    these those

    5. Time and place adverbs/expressions


    Direct Speech Reported Speech
    yesterday the day before
    today that day
    now then/at that moment
    the next day /
    tomorrow
    the following day
    ago before
    next the following
    here there
    Put the following sentences into the Reported Speech
    1) “I’m having a party next week.”
    He said____________________________________________________________________
    2) “Someone is following me.”
    I said______________________________________________________________________
    3) “I will have to write to your parents.”
    I told them ________________________________________________________________
    4) “I don’t understand anything.”
    She told me ________________________________________________________________
    5) “I go to the library this afternoon.”
    Helen said _________________________________________________________________
    6) “Do it again!”
    He told us _________________________________________________________________
    7) “He will leave the country.”
    They said __________________________________________________________________
    8) “They are trying to make him leave the office.”
    She explained that __________________________________________________________

    Reporting Questions
    1. Perguntas com respostas YES / NO
    Ask + if/whether + oração
    2. Perguntas iniciadas com um pronome interrogativo
    Ask + pronome interrogativo + oração
    É preciso desfazer a interrogativa: o sujeito é colocado antes do verbo tal como na
    afirmativa e o auxiliar to do é retirado, por já não ser necessário.
    Exemplos: “Are you enjoying yourself?”
    She asked me if I was enjoying myself.
    “What do you want?”
    He asked what I wanted.
    a) “Have you got all your luggage?”
    She asked me ______________________________________________________________
    b) “Do you like vegetables?”
    He asked me _______________________________________________________________
    c) “What’s your address?”
    They asked ________________________________________________________________
    d) “What time will it start?”
    She asked _________________________________________________________________
    e) “Do you know the way to the station?”
    They asked her _____________________________________________________________

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