Grammar and UsageLead-inT: What did you eat this morning?Tom: ‘I ate ….’T ： What did Tom say, Jack?Jack: He said he ate ….direct speechreported speechWe use direct speech to report what exactly has been said. If we write the speech down, the words will usually appear in quotation marks.1. Which one is direct speech and which one is reported speech? He said, ‘I will go to school tomorrow.’ She told us something secret.2. Change the direct speech into reported speech. She said, ‘This film is quite interesting.’ ‘Finish the project tomorrow.’ he said to me.(direct speech)(reported speech)She said that that film was quite interesting.He asked me to finish the project the next day.(Change what has been said to an object clause or an infinitive phrase.)What should we pay attention to? personal pronouns and tensese.g. Miss Yang said, ‘ I will buy a new dress.’ Miss Yang said that she would buy a new dress. Ex. Simon said, ‘ I wrote a letter.’ How to change the tense? Have a look. Simon said that he had written a letter.Direct SpeechReportedspeechDirect Speech ReportedspeechSimple presentSimple pastSimple futureFuture in the pastPresent continuousPast continuousPast perfectPast perfectSimple pastPast perfectPresent perfect continuousPastperfect continuousPresent perfectPast perfectPractice 1: Change the following sentences into reported speech. 1 ‘I haven’t brought my dictionary,’ the student said.2 Tom said to them, ‘ I will get excited.’3 My father said to me, ‘I am reading the book.’The student said that he hadn’t brought his dictionary.Tom told them that he would get excited.My father told me that he was reading the book.What should we pay attention to?1 personal pronouns and tense2...
