INDIRECT SPEECH PRACTICE
We know that when we want to give or express some facts or opinions about what people are saying or thinking, we have to use INDIRECT or REPORT SPEECH.
In order to say what someone has said previously, we have to consider that the tense must change. The main reason is because when we use indirect speech, we have to give the sense about the simple past. It`s understood that the person who expressed an statement previoulsy, this sentence must be spoken in the past form (The main verbs or auxiliaries have to be in past).
Now, here you have an address web site in which you can learn and get familiar with this topic. After to read it, you can take a look to the exercises you got at the end of this blog. Take your part and practice to reinforce your grammar ability.
I`d like to know your point of views and coments about this grammar part explanations. After you do this, please, take this exercises:
1) Tom said, 'I want to visit my friends this weekend.'
a) Tom said he wants to visit his friends that weekend.
b) Tom said he wanted to visit his friends that weekend.
c) Tom said he wanted to visit his friends this weekend.
2) Jerry said, 'I'm studying English a lot at the moment.'
a) Jerry said he was studying English a lot at that moment.
b) Jerry said he was studying English a lot at the moment.
c) Jerry said I was studying English a lot at that moment.
3) They said, 'We've lived here for a long time.'
a) They said they have lived there for a long time.
b) They said they lived here for a long time.
c) They said they had lived there for a long time.
4) He asked me, 'Have you finished reading the newspaper?'
a) He asked me if had I finished reading the newspaper.
b) He asked me if I had finished reading the newspaper.
c) He asked me if I finished reading the newspaper.
5) 'I get up every morning at seven o'clock.', Peter said.
a) Peter said he got up every morning at seven o'clock.
b) Peter said I got up every morning at seven o'clock.
c) Peter said he had got up every morning at seven o'clock.
Thank. I`ll be waitng for your comments and reflections about this interesting topic.
