Reported speech focuses especially on indirect speech, report what someone else said, using your own palabras.Ej: Direct: "you have an e-mail"
What did you say Pedro?
Peter told me that your tapeworms an e-mail.
From direct style to indirect there are a few times that we do not realise changes. These are:
Direct indirect style style 1.Presente a Pasado
2.Pasado a past Perfect
Had+participio
3.Present Perfect a past Perfect
Have/has+partic. Had+participio
4.Futuro con Will a condicional con
Would+infinitive
5. Imperativo a to+infinitivo
not to+infinit.
Practice
Write the following sentences in indirect speech:
1 "I want you to take these books to the library tomorrow", she told her
1 "I want you to take these books to the library tomorrow", she told her
2 "He didn´t arrive on time once last week", she said.
3 "I had my flu vaccination yesterday", the pupil said.
4"We are moving to our new house today," my neightbour said.
5 "Alice wasn´t playing the piano at yesterday´s concert," Peter said
