-There are two ways of relating what a person has said: direct and indirect. . . . . . .
a - In direct speech we repeat the original speaker´s exact words:
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . She said, "I have lost my book."
b - In indirect (or reported) speech we give the exact meaning of a speech, without necessarily using the speaker´s exact words:
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . She said she had lost her book.
- There is no comma after "say" or other verbs in indirect speech and "that" is normally omitted.
- When we turn direct speech into indirect, some changes are usually necessary and they sometimes depend on the kind of speech: statements, questions, and commands. These are the ones we are going to study during this course, 4º ESO.
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Direct speech
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Indirect speech
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Direct speech
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Indirect speech
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Simple present
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Simple past
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last week
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the previous week
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Simple past
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Past perfect
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a year ago
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a year before
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Present continuous
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Past continuous
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a year ago
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the previous year
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Present Perfect
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Past perfect
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now
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then
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Present perfect cont
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Past perfect c.
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here
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there
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Future
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Conditional
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this / these
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that / those
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Future continuous
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Conditional c.
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wish
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wished
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Conditional
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Conditional
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would rather
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would rather
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had better
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advise+sj.ac+to
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today
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that day
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may
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might
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must
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had to
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yesterday
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the day before
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can
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could
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will
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would
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shall
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should / would
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tonight
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that night
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I
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he / she
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next day
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the following day
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me
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him / her
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we
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they
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us
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them
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English Test 01 - 3º ESO | English Test 1 b - 3º ESO (Pacesetter-Oxford) | |
| English Test 02 - 3º ESO | English Test 2 b - 3º ESO (Pacesetter-Oxford) | ||
| English Test 03 - 3º ESO | |||
| English Test 04 - 3º ESO | For and Since - 3º ESO | ||
| English Test 05 - 3º ESO | Numbers (1-100) - Numbers (1-1000) | ||
| English Test 06 - 3º ESO | Numbers - | ||
| English Test 07 - 3º ESO | English Verbs:1 - verbs2 - verbs3 - verbs4 | ||
| PREPOSITIONS 01 - 02 - 03 - 04 |
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Translate into English 01a - 3º ESO | |
| Phonetic activities | Translate into English 01 b - 3º ESO | ||
| Translate into English 01 C - 3º ESO | |||
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Irregular Verbs and exercises D - 3º ESO | ||
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Several exercises. Global 2b - 3º ESO |
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Translate into English 10 - 3º ESO |
| Several exercises. Global 3 - 3º ESO | Dorian Gray's picture. Vocabulary | ||
| Test your vocabulary | |||