When we tell someone what another person said, we often use the verbs say, tell or ask. Reported speech 3 – reporting verbs: 1 Grammar explanation Indirect speech: He denied finishing the coffee. Indirect speech: He told us to wait there.ĭirect speech: 'It wasn't me who finished the coffee,' he said. Indirect speech: She persuaded me to come. Indirect speech: She reminded me that I ought to close the gate.Look at these examples to see how reporting verbs are used.ĭirect speech: 'You should come, it's going to be a lot of fun,' she said.Direct speech: She said to me, “You ought to close the gate.”.Indirect speech: He said to me that he should study hard.Direct speech: He said, “I should study hard.”.Indirect speech: He told me that I would not keep up with them.Direct speech: He said, “You would not keep up with them.”.Indirect speech: They told him that they might fire his brother.”.Direct speech: They said to him, “We might fire your brother.”.Indirect speech: He told me that he couldn`t speak English a few years back.Direct speech: He said, “I couldn`t speak English a few years ago.”.Indirect speech: My teacher told me that I had to be on time to class.Direct speech: My teacher said to me, “You must be on time to class.Indirect speech: He said to me that he had to keep up with his classmates.
You will learn how to convey a message when you have modal auxiliary verbs in your indirect speech sentences. In the lesson below I cover direct and indirect of modal auxiliaries. We talked about direct and indirect of present tense, past tense and future tenses.
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