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Understanding Reported and Indirect Speech

This document discusses reported or indirect speech. It explains how indirect speech recounts what was said using the reporting speaker's own words, changing pronouns, verb tenses, and some words. It provides examples of direct speech and how it is changed to indirect speech based on tense. Specifically, it addresses changing the simple present, present continuous, simple past, past continuous, present perfect, past perfect, and simple future to the appropriate past tense form in indirect speech. It also addresses how imperatives and questions are changed to indirect speech. Finally, it discusses other verbs that can be used instead of "to tell" when reporting speech indirectly.

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Understanding Reported and Indirect Speech

This document discusses reported or indirect speech. It explains how indirect speech recounts what was said using the reporting speaker's own words, changing pronouns, verb tenses, and some words. It provides examples of direct speech and how it is changed to indirect speech based on tense. Specifically, it addresses changing the simple present, present continuous, simple past, past continuous, present perfect, past perfect, and simple future to the appropriate past tense form in indirect speech. It also addresses how imperatives and questions are changed to indirect speech. Finally, it discusses other verbs that can be used instead of "to tell" when reporting speech indirectly.

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Reported Speech or Indirect Speech

Dircurso Indireto o narradorusando suas prprias palavras para contar o que foi dito, mudando pronomes, tempos verbais e algumas palavras.

Direct Speech
She said,

Indirect Speech
She said (that)

Simple Present: I have a cute dog. Present Continuous: I am getting the bus. Simple Past: I went to the beach. Past Continuous: I was cooking dinner.

Simple Past: She had a cute dog. Past Continuous: She was getting the bus. Past Perfect: She had gone to the beach. Past continuous: She was cooking dinner. She had been cooking dinner.

Direct Speech
She said,

Indirect Speech
She said (that)

Present Perfect: I have paid the bill. Past Perfect: I had cleaned my room. Simple Future: I will miss the show. Simple Past: I went to the beach.

Past Perfect: She had paid the bill. Past Perfect : She had cleaned her room. Future in the Past: She would miss the show. Simple Past: I went to the beach.

Reported Speech com Imperativo

Imperativo afirmativo: The doorbell said to me: Put your suitcases here.
The doctor told me to put my suitcases there.

Imperativo negativo: The teacher said to them: Dont be afraid.


The teacher told them not to be afraid

O verbo to tell o mais usado para se fazer Reported Speech. Mas tambm pode-se usar os verbos: to order, to beg, to advise, to warn.

Verb TO TELL
To tell a story/ a tale. = contar uma histria ou conto. To tell a lie. = contar uma mentira. To tell the truth. = contar ou dizer a verdade. To tell the time. = dizer as horas. To tell the difference. = distinguir. To tell fortunes. = ler a sorte.

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Sempre que o verbo to say (que inicia o relato) estiver no Simple Present, Present Continuous, Present Perfect ou Simple Future, no haver mudanas no tempo verbal da orao seguinte. He says He is saying, I love apples. He has said He will say He says He is saying (that) he loves apples. He has said He will say

Reported Speech with Questions


They said, They asked

Where do you live? How many bikes did she ride? What have they done? Is she crying? Will you excuse me?

where I lived. how many bikes she had ridden. what they had done. If/whether she was crying. If/whether I would excuse them.

Alm do verbo to ask, h outros verbos menos comuns, mas que tambm podem ser usados para fazermos a pergunta indireta. So eles: to inquire, to wonder, to want, to know. Com esses no se menciona o objeto indireto, a pessoa para quem se diz algo.

Ex.: I wanted to know if you had a kid.

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