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Title: A guide to understading figures of speech
Description: Figures of speech activity included
Description: Figures of speech activity included
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A GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING REPORTED SPEECH, NOTES, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
REPORTED SPEECH
•UNDERLINE THE CHANGES YOU HAVE TO MAKE!
•DROP OR REMOVE THE INVERTED COMMAS
•DROP OR REMOVE THE COMMA AFTER THE INTRODUCTORY CLAUSE (HE
SAID…) AND REPLACE IT WITH THAT/WHETHER/IF/etc
...
If you start in the present tense
-He says / remarks / asks/ shouts
...
He says, “I like being an adult
...
2
...
You have to change:
~The person / pronoun
~The verb's tense
The verb takes one step back into the past
Sing
Am / is
Was / were
Do
Has / have
Must
Needn’t
go
Had
Shall / will go
Don’t / doesn’t
Didn’t go
Sang
Was
had been
Did
had
had to
Didn’t have to
Went
Had had
Would go
Didn’t
Hadn’t gone
had sung
had been
had done
Had gone
~The time
Today
That day
1
Yesterday
The previous day / The day
before
Tomorrow
Now
Ago
Next day / Following day
Then
Before
~The common changes
Here
This
These
There
That
Those
~The personal pronouns
I
My / mine
We
Our
He / she
His / Hers
They
Theirs
ACTIVITY
RE-WRITE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES IN THE REPORTED SPEECH COMPLETING THE SENTENCE
1
...
’
Samuel said ___________________________
2
...
’
Moly said _____________________________
3
...
Swapna says ___________________________
4
...
'I bought a car' said Sussie
...
2
...
4
...
she wanted to go
...
that his father was in Bangalore
...
that she bought a car
Title: A guide to understading figures of speech
Description: Figures of speech activity included
Description: Figures of speech activity included