Reported Speech

?What is it? How do we use it

.Yesterday I saw Sara
She told me that she
got 10/10 in her
.English exam

..Today ..Yesterday
 :We often use reported speech to

.Give someone a telephone message .1 •

For example: Maha said that she couldn’t come today •
.because she was sick

Tell someone news that we heard from .2 •

.someone else
.For example: Nora told me that Amal graduated •

.To repeort something that happened earlier .3 •

For example: Ahmad said that the other driver ran the red •
.light and hit his car
 How Do we use Reported
?Speech
When we use Reported Speech, we are •
usually talking about something that
.happened in The Past

Therefore, Verbs usually change to the* •

.past
:For example
am / is become was

are becomes were

Have / has become had

can becomes could

will becomes would

 In Reported Speech you should use
:this structure
…………………… Someone said ( that )

:Or

…………………… Someone told me ( that )

 Change time and place

this, these that, those, the

here there
now then
today that day
this evening that evening
tonight that night
 Change time and place

this, these that, those, the

here there
now then
today that day
this evening that evening
tonight that night
 Introductory
1
Verb

She told me He said They explained

(that…) (that…) (that..)
We informed her I pointed out
She added (that..)
(that..) (that…)

She whispered
He claimed (that..)
(that..)
They thought
(that..) etc
 :Be careful with pronouns
My sister is coming to visit
.me soon

her
Ameera said that ………… sister was coming
her
.to visit ………… soon
 I’m not happy at my job
anymore and I think I will
.quit

was
Ahmad told me that he ………. not happy at
.…………………his job anymore thought
and he
would quit
.he ………….
 We didn’t do our history class today so we
had a free period.

they hadn’t done

Mona explained that __________________
that day, so
their history class ___________
________
they ‘d had
__________________ a free period.

a they didn’t do
they didn’t
b their
our
they hadn’t done theirs

c that day
the day before
d they had
they’d had
the next day they would have
 I love reading books, especially when they
have such an exciting plot as this one.

she loved reading books

Aunt Molly said ____________________
they had such an
especially when ____________
that one
exciting plot as ____________.

a that loved read

b they have
that she loves reading they had
she loved reading we had

c this one
that one
the one
 I find that the harder I work, the
more luck I seem to have.

Thomas
Jefferson
He said he found that the harder
he worked, the more luck he
seemed to have.
What did he say?
 90% of our worries are about
things that will not happen

Margaret
Thatcher
She said that 90% of their worries
were about things that would not
happen
What did she say?
 Everything is funny as long as it
is happening to somebody else.

Will Rogers
 He said that everything was funny as
long as it was happening to somebody
else.

What did he say?