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hello lovely students and welcome back
to english with lucy today we are going
to talk about reported speech
reported speech can seem really
complicated at first but my goal in this
lesson is to make it really easy and
understandable for you so that you can
use it with confidence to assist you
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all right let's get started with the
lesson
firstly let's take a look at direct
speech the speech is
i like chocolate then we have to follow
a couple of simple rules number one we
have to add a reporting verb number two
and this one's really important we have
to
backshift our tenses
by one and number three we have to
change the pronouns
this sounds very
very complicated let's put it into
practice it's easier to see it
if we want to change that into reported
speech
she said that she liked chocolate
we've added the reporting verb she said
we've backshifted our tense like
liked and we've changed the pronouns i
has gone to she the most common
reporting verbs are to say and to tell
which are conjugated to said and told
remember to always include your
reporting verbs when using reported
speech
a couple more examples she said that she
loved the movie
that here is optional she said she loved
the movie she said that she loved the
movie you can use whichever you'd like
they said they ate breakfast they said
that they ate breakfast
we can also use the structure to say to
someone
robert said to his teacher that he
finished the assignment
robert said to his teacher that he had
finished the assignment or alison said
to her mother that she was feeling ill
when we use tell we must always remember
to add in the person we're reporting to
we use the structure tell plus who we're
reporting to
she
told me that she loved the movie
they told us that they had eaten
breakfast
so let's talk about that back shift in
tenses when we use reported speech we're
changing the perspective english has 12
basic tenses that can be broken down
into three groups the past the present
and the future it might sound like a lot
of changes but i've created a list for
you you can download the pdf and keep
that list with you i've also got it on
screen now
focus now on the past perfect and the
past perfect continuous
you will see that there are no changes
this is because we can't really go any
further back in the past i had been
doing my homework lucy said that she had
been doing her homework no change to the
tense the future tenses are also really
easy they all use will and this simply
changes to wood
i will be going to university next year
lucy said that she would be going to
university next year
i think those six tenses are a gift from
the grammar gods
you just have to focus on the first six
i'm going to give you some examples in
direct speech and i want you to change
them into reported speech i'm going to
give you a few seconds but feel free to
pause the video let's look at the
present simple to past simple for all of
these i'm going to say i and you have to
change it to lucy said that she
so the first one i want to buy a car
you need to start it with lucy said that
she i'll give you a few seconds
lucy said that she wanted to buy a car
present simple to past simple let's try
present continuous to past continuous
i am doing my homework i'll give you a
couple of seconds
lucy said that she was doing her
homework what about present perfect to
pass perfect i have finished my homework
lucy said that she had finished her
homework
past simple to past perfect i washed the
dishes
lucy said that she had washed the
ditches
those are the hard ones let's try a
couple with will and wood i will call
you later
lucy said that she would call you later
now as always with english there are
some exceptions with reported speech we
usually don't change the tense if the
information is current and ongoing like
a habit
i love my parents
lucy said that she loves her parents
i still love my parents it's ongoing so
we might keep it in the present tense
right
that is it for your introduction to
reported speech
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you've learned and put it into practice
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