Reported speech copia

REPORTED

SPEECH

Thanks to Isabel

Bastida EOI

CARTAGENA

1. Check what you know.

2. Tenses and reported speech.

3. Other changes in reported speech.

4. Reporting verbs

1. Calvin announced that he would like to be an inventor when he grew up.

2. Calvin continued saying that first he would invent a time machine.3. He also declared that then he would come back to the day before and would take himself to the following day . 4. He finally stated that first he would skip that dumb assignment.

1. Hobbes asked him if he had any idea for his story yet.

2. Calvin replied no, that he was waiting for inspiration.3. Calvin added that he couldn’t just turn on creativity like a faucet and that he had to be in the right mood.4. Hobbes inquired him what mood was that and Calvin answered last-minute panic.

1. Calvin asked Susie if he could borrow her black crayon.2. Susie accepted, but she told him not to break it and not to peel the paper off and to colour with all sides of it so it stayed pointy.3. Calvin asked her why she didn’t take out an insurance policy on it.4. Susie reminded him not to ruin her crayon and asked him what he was drawing anyway.

5. When Susie learnt what Calvin was drawing, she told him to give her crayon back.

1. CHECK WHAT YOU KNOW

STATEMENTS Calvin added that he couldn’t just turn on creativity like a faucet and that he had to be in the right mood.

QUESTIONS Calvin asked her why she didn’t take out an insurance policy on it.

COMMANDS Susie told him not to break her crayon.

2. TENSES

3. OTHER CHANGES

/ the previous day

/ the previous week

/ the day after

4. Reporting verbs(not) to + infinitive

person + (not) to infinitive

-ing

agreeoffer refuse promisethreaten

adviceaskconvinceencourageinvitepersuaderemindtellwarn

apologize foraccuse sb ofadmitblame sb fordenyinsist onrecommendregretsuggest

(not) to do sthg

sb (not) to do sth

doing sthg