reported_speechdirectandindirectedspeech.docVIP

Step 1 - THE GRAMMAR part 1 You have to use indirect speech / reported speech if you want to encase the quoted sentence into a sentence. In this case there are going to be several changes in the quoted sentence. Changes: First, we are going to learn how to quote a sentence in the present. In these cases you don’t have to go back a tense, but there are other necessary changes you have to do. Let’s look at these first. B) Change the pronouns: X says to Y In reported speech you have to change I, me, my, mine, myself, / we, us, our, ours, ourselves if X isn’t I or we. YOU HAVE TO CONFORM I OR WE