REPORTED SPEECH II UNIT 14 LESSON 3 REPORTED
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REPORTED SPEECH II UNIT 14, LESSON 3
REPORTED SPEECH: COMMANDS, ADVICE, & REQUESTS
REPORTED SPEECH: COMMANDS, ADVICE, & REQUESTS • Chef: “Stir the soup. ”/ The chef told me to stir the soup. • Friend: “You shouldn’t add sugar. ”/ Her friend advised her not to add sugar. • Manager: “Can you help me? ”/ The manager asked me to help her.
REPORTED SPEECH: COMMANDS, ADVICE, & REQUESTS • Use an infinitive phrase to report commands • Teacher: “Turn off your phones. ” • The teacher told us to turn off our phones. • Often an infinitive phrase is used to report advice or requests with modals. • Jim: “You should bake a chocolate cake. ” • Jim told me to bake a chocolate cake. • Ann: “Could you turn off the oven? ” • Ann asked me to turn off the oven.
REPORTED SPEECH: COMMANDS, ADVICE, & REQUESTS • For negative commands, advice, or requests, not comes before the infinitive phrase. • Joe: “Don’t cut the cake yet. ” • Joe told me not to cut the cake yet. • Do not include please when reporting a command or request. • Receptionist: “Please wait in the hallway. ” • The receptionist told us to wait in the hallway.
REPORTED SPEECH: TIME & PLACE CHANGES • Words that describe the time and place often change in reported speech. This is • Time words change as follows when done to preserve the speaker’s original reporting speech at a later date (the next meaning. week, year) • Bob: “I’ll be out of the office this afternoon. ” • Now then • When I talked to Bob last week, he said he’d be out of the office that afternoon. • Tomorrow the next day • This afternoon that afternoon • Yesterday the day before • Next week the following week • Last year the year before
REPORTED SPEECH: TIME & PLACE CHANGES • Sometimes here changes to there when our location is farther from the reference point. • The chef: “Put the plates here. ” • The chef said to put the plates there. • Sometimes this changes to that and these to those. • Valerie: “This recipe is easy to follow. ” • Valerie said (that) that recipe was easy to follow.
