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Reported speech
Objetivos:
-Utilizar correctamente verbos say, offer, tell, order, suggest, ask, etc.
Habilidades:
-Transformar
-Aplicar
-Reconocer
Reported speech (or indirect speech)is used to say what other person(s) said
before, so when we change direct speech into reported speech, we usually go
one tense back and we need an appropriate verb to complete the sentence.
2) Using commands:
ask + infinitive
imperatives as requests He asked me to give him some money.
Please give me some money.
4) Using questions:
When we have question words (who, why, how, when, etc) in direct
speech, we have to maintain the question word but we have to change
the order of the question:
When we have questions starting with any auxiliary verb (do, does, did,
will, etc.)
perso
Verb in the correct
n
tense
now then
today that day
here there
this that
this week that week
the following day
tomorrow the next day
the day after
the following week
next week the next week
the week after
the previous day
yesterday
the day before
the previous week
last week
the week before
previously
ago
before
2 weeks previously
2 weeks ago
2 weeks before
tonight that night
the previous Saturday
last Saturday
the Saturday before
the following Saturday
the next Saturday
next Saturday
the Saturday after
that Saturday
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