🔥 Learn Reported Speech in 15 minutes! (Indirect Speech

🔥 Learn Reported Speech in 15 minutes! (Indirect Speech - Direct Speech)

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Learn everything about reported speech (indirect speech) using these 3 simple grammar rules. Free pdf: free.englishwithgreg.com
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► CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro - Reported Speech in English
00:21 What is Reported Speech or Indirect Speech?
02:08 Using Reporting Verbs
02:57 Common Mistake! Say v Tell
04:03 What is Backshifting?
04:47 Change pronouns
06:56 Backshifting examples and tenses
10:45 Reported commands
12:22 Reported questions
15:01 Reported modal verbs
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► TRANSCRIPTION
You asked for this video, so here it is, reported speech. And there are just three simple rules to follow if you want to change direct speech into reported speech. So when people tell you that reported speech is difficult, don't listen to them.
Now, before we look at these three simple rules, what is reported speech? Well, there are two types of speech that I will be talking in this video, direct speech and indirect speech or reported speech. Let me explain. I had a conversation with John yesterday.
John said, "I'm going to London. I can't wait!"
Here, I'm using the exact words that John used. Easy. That's direct speech. But unfortunately, we don't normally speak like this when we're talking about what someone said. Instead, we use reported speech or indirect speech, which looks like this.
John said that he was going to London and he couldn't wait. You see, I'm not quoting John. I'm not using his exact words. I'm just reporting what he said in a sentence of my own. So that is what reported speech is. And that is the most common and natural way way of telling someone what John said. Now, let's have a look at these three rules that you need to know to use it.
If you're new here, I'm Greg, and I teach upper intermediate and advanced English, so you can speak English clearly and understand easily. I have a free PDF for you to help you with today's lesson. You'll get all the rules and examples and a test to make sure you have learned reported speech perfectly. The link is up there and down there.
Rule one, when we're using reported speech, we need a reporting verb. The most common reporting verbs are say, tell, ask. They are the common ones, but there are also many others you can use to add a more advanced flavour to your English, like inform, mention, state, explain, suggest, confirm, agree, disagree, point out.
They are all reporting verbs that we can use in reported speech. But to make the rules simpler, I'll just be using say, tell, and ask in this video. That's easy enough, though there is one really common mistake that students make with the verbs say and tell. Have a look at these sentences and tell me, what's the mistake here?
He said me I could go. Say your parents hello from me.
Any idea? Well, the verb should be tell, not say here.
How do we know? Well, learn this rule and you'll be fine. You say something and you tell someone. In other words, we follow the verb tell with a person. I tell you. I told him. I will tell her. But we cannot do this with the verb say. We do not say, I say you. I said him. I will say you. All those are wrong. Okay, so once you avoid that very common mistake, rule number one, starting reported speech with a reporting verb, is quite simple, right?
Okay, rule number two. Rule number two is probably the most challenging thing we have to do in reported speech, and that is we have to change the tense of the main verb. And this is what grammar people call backshifting. I don't normally like grammar words, but I think backshifting is quite a nice word. Okay? Shift is like, oi, move, shift. And back is in the past. So it's like, oi, verb, move. Move one tense back in the past. Backshifting.
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@EnglishWithGreg Ай бұрын

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@user-ki1wr9qx4b 11 күн бұрын

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@shieldstar5629 10 күн бұрын

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@abderrahmanemekhfi Ай бұрын

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@cinz6663 29 күн бұрын

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@alangomes7601 15 күн бұрын

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@LARANGURENL 27 күн бұрын

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@fabianabevis9890 Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this brilliant ( and manageable) revision of the "Indirect Speech"..... you're a true "virtuoso" of the English Grammar.

@KZM100o Ай бұрын

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@user-ck6xy3jq2v 29 күн бұрын

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@user-ro2ck1p7 Ай бұрын

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@aamirkhan3838 19 күн бұрын

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@salutvictor4772 29 күн бұрын

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@analuciafernandes8752 Ай бұрын

Greg you taught me how to use the words say and tell. They are common words but I had never heard it before. Thanks for your helpful video

@shieldstar5629 Ай бұрын

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@marceladumitrufilip Ай бұрын

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@Diptanupoet Ай бұрын

Great sir! You always explain grammar in the simplest way on KZbin. No words for your teaching skill.

@EnglishWithGreg Ай бұрын

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@user-jx4ei7ru7n 28 күн бұрын

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@MariaCeliaZamorano-ne6bl Ай бұрын

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@fatimaahmed_27 Ай бұрын

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@EnglishWithGreg Ай бұрын

Good luck with your exam! Hope it helps!

@Layan-R7 Ай бұрын

Wonderful video. I wonder if there is an explanation for the passive voice?.

@franciscavillamane8098 14 күн бұрын

All very useful, thank you. A litlle large. A comment, do a video to explain wether, I hate it because I dont know haw to use it ❤from Argentina greetings🤗😘👍

@santoshpariyar7322 26 күн бұрын

Thank you for your brilliant video sir, but i have a request for me that you must upload a video on all preposition preposition makes me confused sometimes

@pjdava Ай бұрын

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@EnglishWithGreg Ай бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

@m-arc4781 Ай бұрын

Hi, Greg! Perfect explanation! 🇰🇬

@EnglishWithGreg Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@nitinchaturvedi3880 Ай бұрын

Sir please a video on past participle, present participle and perfect participle and please cover all the uses of these if you make a video you will make it easy for us as it is advanced grammar

@user-jr2cn1wg4c Ай бұрын

hello, I am pretty luckly to see your videos.Can you make more about Clauses ,for example: WHICH, THAT, WHO, WHERE, WHOSE, and so on. Thank you.

@user-ov3cq3zp7o Ай бұрын

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@guillaumebuiret1116 Ай бұрын

Hello Greg. Thanks a lot for this video. I have a question about the example you gave at 14:50. I would have said : "she asked him what he would be doing that time the day after". What do you think about it? Have a good day

@MayorJerry0831 8 күн бұрын

almost 500k

@vitalyplotkin555 Ай бұрын

Hey, profe! and what about here - there, this - that, now - then. I think those should be part of Rule #4

@shieldstar5629 13 күн бұрын

I don't know how he understood that i meant to say you you really make it a peace of cake English thank you so much and i wrote think instead of thank you so much it's really embarrassing im really sorry about that but your really smart if I were you I wouldn't understand that 😊😮

@Gyankabhandar12344 Ай бұрын

I am from India ❤

@ibrahim_im Ай бұрын

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@claudeandre4194 Ай бұрын

Hi; I can't download and get the worksheet ! Nothing in my boxmail !

@mschan305 21 күн бұрын

no need any changes of Time and Place Words in Reported Speech?

@shieldstar5629 13 күн бұрын

This an apic video

@jorgedangelo3331 Ай бұрын

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@user-op7mv2dp3n Ай бұрын

Hi! I'm Etienne from eastern Africa ; teacher Greg how can i fluency English wile i live where i can't find a native English speaker even a fluwent one.thanks for your help.

@raviperera50 Ай бұрын

Dear teacher, I'd like to know if these sentences sound OK in English, especially regarding the usage of 'less' and 'short' 1. Despite this being festive season, business is less / short for us. 2. Being a holiday, buses are short today. 3. My knowledge of science is less / short. Please help me.

@sasa3766 Ай бұрын

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@TEMBODOUBT Ай бұрын

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@EnglishWithGreg Ай бұрын

Thank you! :-)

@TEMBODOUBT Ай бұрын

@@EnglishWithGreg My pleasure.

@Mindlift_Coaching 6 күн бұрын

Why we don't change "were" (engagements were) to Past Perfect in the following example: Direct speech: Grandma: When I was your age, engagements were very short… maybe 3 months. Do you think you will have a short or long engagement? Woman: I imagine a long one. John has his important business trips coming up. Reported speech: It was good! She asked me when we thought we would get married. I said that I didn’t know. Then she told me that in her time, engagements were short. Then she asked me if I thought we would have a short or long engagement.

@Atletaa Ай бұрын

Is it the same with these sentences? I thought he was happy or I thought he is happy Or in a different case : i thought he had been happy I wanted to use backshifting cause it looks similiar to reported speech Alternatively with a Word "promise" : I had promised i would do it the following day

@donalfredduave9684 Ай бұрын

Have a good day

@EnglishWithGreg Ай бұрын

You too!

@anaramos2802 Ай бұрын

Passive Voice is more complex compared to Reported Speech which is quite simple and just requires following the rules.

@johndereck304 Ай бұрын

Bro, I always watch your videos not because you can teach me anything new, but because of your cool peasant caps lol

@fabianabevis9890 Ай бұрын

Basque berets.... actually.

@johndereck304 Ай бұрын

@@fabianabevis9890 Well I can't know all the terms for different types of hats so thanks for telling me, but I will still continue to refer to it as peasant cap lol.

@johndereck304 Ай бұрын

@@fabianabevis9890 Find pictures on google images of basque berets and you will see that his is a far cry from one. He does wear a peasant cap lol.

@imjuniorbondi 28 күн бұрын

I won't go to the office today either. I won't go to the office today as well. Sir which one is the correct sentence?

@kabeers5376 Ай бұрын

First Comment Greg. A big fan Of Yours

@EnglishWithGreg Ай бұрын

Thanks for commenting! 🙂

@shieldstar5629 13 күн бұрын

does anyone know why he stopped making videos i he all right i really want to say a new video very badly

@user-ki1wr9qx4b 11 күн бұрын

@Bguy1 5 күн бұрын

Not a native English speaker but pretty sure all of them are correct though the second one is the best I think

@dougie2150 19 сағат бұрын

Can I say: They said they have been practising for hours. If yes, is it still reported speech? And similar: The chef said he will be cooking later. Instead of using 'would'. (AI said it is also correct)

@ALIDAFAR. 4 сағат бұрын

Dude, in everyday English(informal English) we don't follow that rule, for example, "I'm doing my homework", would be "he said he's doing his homework". But if you wanna stick to the grammar, it'd be like this " he said he was doing his homework". Hope it helps.

@nickra60 Ай бұрын

Just a questio. We discussed here following sentences: He is going to New York. Vs He is to New York And Shipping point is to be determined. Vs Shipping point is to determined. Both sentences are correct, but when do you use which sentence?