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    Direct / Indirect Speech: I Am Feeling Ill!

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    This document discusses the differences between direct and indirect speech. [1] Pronouns, tense, and time/place references may change when converting direct speech to indirect speech. [2] For pronouns, first person pronouns change to third person and possessives change to match the new subject. [3] Tenses typically change to past tense in indirect speech.

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    Direct / Indirect Speech: I Am Feeling Ill!

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    This document discusses the differences between direct and indirect speech. [1] Pronouns, tense, and time/place references may change when converting direct speech to indirect speech. [2] For pronouns, first person pronouns change to third person and possessives change to match the new subject. [3] Tenses typically change to past tense in indirect speech.

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    This document discusses the differences between direct and indirect speech. [1] Pronouns, tense, and time/place references may change when converting direct speech to indirect speech. [2] For pronouns, first person pronouns change to third person and possessives change to match the new subject. [3] Tenses typically change to past tense in indirect speech.

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    This document discusses the differences between direct and indirect speech. [1] Pronouns, tense, and time/place references may change when converting direct speech to indirect speech. [2] For pronouns, first person pronouns change to third person and possessives change to match the new subject. [3] Tenses typically change to past tense in indirect speech.

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    Direct / Indirect Speech

    I am feeling Paul said that


    he was feeling
    ill! ill.
    Paul said, I am feeling ill.
    Paul said that he was feeling ill.

    What are the changes?


    1. No speech markers (, ) in the Indirect
    Speech.
    2. We added that (optional)
    3. Pronoun change (I He)
    4. Tense change ( am was)
    Pronoun change
    I He /she
    You He /she/ they
    The doctor said, You are getting better.
    The doctor said that she was getting
    better.

    You are
    getting
    better!
    My his/her
    Jane said, They are my friends.
    Jane said they were her friends.

    They are
    my friends
    Me him/her
    Jane said, He loved me.
    Jane said he had loved her.

    He loved
    me.
    Mine his/hers
    Jane said, It is mine.
    Jane said it was hers.

    It is
    mine!
    Tense change
    In general, the present will would
    form in direct speech can could
    changes to the past form want/like/know/go etc.
    in reported speech: wanted/liked/knew/wen
    am/is was t etc.
    are were
    do/does did The past simple can stay
    the same or you can
    have/has had
    change it to the past
    perfect (had done / had
    seen / had known etc.)
    My parents
    are very
    well.

    James said that his parents were very well.


    My father has been
    in New York.

    He said that his father had been in New


    York.
    I'm going to
    learn to
    drive.

    Jenny said that she was going to learn to drive.


    We can
    finish in
    time.

    Jason said they could finish in time.


    I watched TV and
    I did my homework.

    Sami said that he had watched TV and he had done his


    homework.
    Change of time and place
    reference
    "I saw him today", she said.
    She said that she had seen him that day.

    today that day


    "I saw him yesterday"

    yesterday the day


    before
    He said that he had seen him the day before.
    End of presentation

    Thank you!

    Tarak Brahmi September 2009

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