(As I'm sure you know, often, we can choose if we want to use 'that' or not in English.
We also may need to change words like 'my' and 'your'. We don't need to change the tense, though probably we do need to change the 'person' from 'I' to 'she', for example. Reported speech: She says (that) she likes ice cream.We just put 'she says' and then the sentence: ( Click here for more about using 'say' and 'tell'.) If this verb is in the present tense, it's easy. We use a 'reporting verb' like 'say' or 'tell'. Later, maybe we want to tell someone else what the first person said. When do we use reported speech? Sometimes someone says a sentence, for example "I'm going to the cinema tonight". Click here to download this explanation in PDF. 'Would you like me to help you?'ĭo this exercise to test your grammar again.Click here for a list of reported speech exercises. If the question is making an offer, request or suggestion, we can use a specific verb pattern instead, for example offer + infinitive, ask + infinitive or suggest + ing. He wondered when we could get it done by.She wanted to know if they'd brought their passports.The most common reporting verb for questions is ask, but we can also use verbs like enquire, want to know or wonder. In what, where, why, who, when or how questions, we use the question word to report the question. She asked us whether we'd finished the project yet.He asked me if I was going to the Helsinki conference.'Are you going to the Helsinki conference?' In yes/ no questions, we use if or whether to report the question. You can learn about these changes on the Reported speech 1 – statements page. We also often make changes to the tenses and other words in the same way as for reported statements (e.g.
Do you like) to a statement structure (e.g.
In indirect speech, we change the question structure (e.g. Indirect speech: He asked me if I liked working in sales. To do this, we can use direct speech or indirect speech.ĭirect speech: 'Do you like working in sales?' he asked. Grammar explanationĪ reported question is when we tell someone what another person asked. Indirect speech: She asked me to write it down. Indirect speech: She asked me who I'd seen.ĭirect speech: 'Could you write that down for me?' she asked. Indirect speech: He asked me if I worked from home.ĭirect speech: 'Who did you see?' she asked. direct speech: 'Do you work from home?' he said. Look at these examples to see how we can tell someone what another person asked.
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