HAVO 5 direct vs indirect speech
HAVO 5 Direct and Indirect Speech
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HAVO 5 Direct and Indirect Speech
Direct vs indirect speech
Direct speech: Mom says: 'You will be late if you do not hurry.'
Indirect speech: Mom said I would be late if I did not hurry.
Two things to focus on:
1. Make sure you use the correct pronouns in the indirect speech.
2. Change the verbs so that they fit the sentence.
Direct vs indirect speech
Verbs:
simple present --> simple past walk --> walked / buy --> bought
simple past --> past perfect walked --> had walked
present perfect --> past perfect have walked --> had walked
present continuous --> past continuous am walking --> was walking
future 'will' --> future 'would'
must --> had to
can --> could
Direct vs indirect speech
She said: 'I'm home.' --> She said she was home.
They said: 'We don't agree.' --> They said they didn't agree.
She said: 'You must come home at once.' --> She said I had to come home at once.
He wondered: 'Will she be there?' --> He wondered if she would be there.
She said: 'I was in New York last year.' --> She said she had been in New York last year.
They said: 'We saw Nick's teacher.' --> They said they had seen Nick's teacher.
He says: 'I have been fired.' --> He said he had been fired.
They shout: 'She has done it.' --> They shouted she had done it.
She said: 'He works in a bank.'
They mentioned: 'We went out last night.'
My dad told us: 'I was waiting for the bus when he arrived.'
Sue said: 'I didn't go to the party.'
My friend said: 'Lucy will come later.'
Exercise 2
Change the sentences from direct speech to indirect speech.
She said: “I’m leaving tomorrow”
He answered: “She got married last year”
The man asked: “Do you work in London?”
They said: "We often meet friends in London at the weekend."
He told us: "I don't go to the gym very often."
They shouted: "We are working here!"
Lisa said: "I'm listening to my new CD."
Brian said: "They visited Japan."
He said: "I met my girlfriend in a café."
He mentioned: "Lucy has drunk six cups of coffee today."
They said: "We will help if we can."
My niece said: "I visited my parents at the weekend."