Reported Speech PPT
Reported Speech PPT
Reported Speech PPT
Prepared by: MM
Outline:
1. Definition
2. Rules
3. Tense changes
4. Time and place changes
5. Pronouns
6. Reporting Verbs
7. Indirect Questions
8. Commands, Requests, Advice in Indirect Speech
9. Offers and Suggestions in Indirect Speech
10. Exclamations in Indirect Speech
11. Indirect Speech: MIXED TYPES
12. Exercises
1. Definition
Reported speech (also
known as indirect speech)
refers to a sentence
reporting what someone has
said.
2. Rules
In all sentences, the quotation marks and the
comma immediately before the first quotation
mark are removed. Next, the word "that" is
usually inserted after the reporting verb.
Then, there are certain changes to be
considered.
• If the reporting verb is in the present tense we
don't need to change the tense, though probably
we do need to change the 'person' from 'I' to 'she’
• “I like ice cream”.
• She says she likes ice cream.
Can Could
She said, "I can teach English online." She said she could teach English online.
Must Had to
She said, "I must have a computer to teach She said she had to have a computer to
English online." teach English online.
Shall Should
She said, "What shall we learn today?" She asked what we should learn today.
May Might
She said, "May I open a new browser?" She asked if she might open a new
browser.
4. Time and place changes
Now › Then
Here › There
This › That
1. Subject + asked
A. OFFERS:
• “Shall I bring you some tea?” He offered to
bring me some tea.
B. SUGGESTIONS:
• “Shall we meet at the theatre? He suggested
meeting at the theatre.
• The son said to his mother, ‘I shall never be rude
to you.’ The son promised his mother that
he would never be rude to her.
• ‘Why has the clock stopped?’ thought Peter.
Peter wondered why the clock had stopped.
• I said, ‘They have gone out.’ I informed that
they had gone out.
10. Exclamations in Indirect Speech
A. Exclamations beginning What (a) ... or How ... can
be reported by:
- exclaim/say that:
o He said, “What a dreadful idea!” or “How dreadful!”
He exclaimed that it was a dreadful idea/was dreadful.
- give an exclamation of delight/disgust/horror/relief/
surprise etc.
- if the exclamation is followed by an action: “with an
exclamation of delight/disgust” etc. + he/she etc. + verb;
B. Other types of exclamation:
o “Good!” he exclaimed.