Reported Speech: Reporting Verbs

This is a review on what we have been studying the last few sessions:

1. First of all, we reviewed basic Reported Speech:

- STATEMENTS

Remember that a statement is a sentence, it provides information and is the easiest form that we can report. For example:

"We will do the washing-up tomorrow"
My siblings said that they would do the washing up the following day.

According to this, we learned that there are some specific components that need to be reported/changed in a reporting sentence. They are:

1. Pronouns, etc.
2. Verbs (back shift)
3. Time expressions

You have all the information on pages 113-114 (Student's Book) and we've also copied some extra charts in the notebook.

- QUESTIONS

As we you know, there are different kinds of questions (wh-questions and YES/NO questions). When reporting, we need to keep in mind the type in order to use the correct structure. We have seen that the specific structure for questions is the following:

X [asked] + WHETHER/IF + Clause (Subject+verb+complements) (FOR YES/NO)

X [asked] + WH-WORD + Clause (Subject+verb+complements) (FOR WH)

- ORDERS

As seen in class, these sentences are quite easy to report. Remember that we need to use the reporting verb (for example, order) and then we need to use a TO INFINITIVE. The structure, for affirmative and negative is the following:

X [ordered] TO INFINITIVE + complements
X [ordered] NOT TO INFINITIVE + complements


2. Second, we reviewed the GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE that follows each reporting verb.

HERE YOU CAN DOWNLOAD OR PRINT THE CHART SEEN IN CLASS

You also have some specific REPORTING VERBS on page 114 (Student's book). 

3. Exercises

Remember that the best way you have in order to improve your reported speech competence is to practise. Here you have some exercises that may be useful for you when preparing your exam. Please, make sure you complete some of them, and if there's any doubt you can ask any of us in class next week.

REPORTED STATEMENTS
REPORTED QUESTIONS
REPORTED ORDERS
REPORTING VERBS EXERCISE