UNIT 5 Through the Grapevine

REPORTED SPEECH 

We can report someone's words in two ways. We can use direct speech with quotation marks ("I work in a bank"), or we can use reported speech (He said he worked in a bank.)

In reported speech the tenses, word-order and pronouns may be different form those in the original sentence.

Direct Speech        

Present Simple

Present Continous

Present Perfect 

Past Simple

Will

Can

May

Must 

Have to 

Reported Speech

Past Simple

Past Continous

Past Perfect

Past Perfect

Would

Could

Might

Had to

Had to

REPORTING QUESTIONS

When we report what people say, we usually change the tense of the verbs to reflect that we are reporting;This pattern is followed when we report questions and there are also other important changes between direct questions and reported questions 

YES/NO questions:

Direct question: Do you like working in teams?

Reported questions: He asked if I liked working in teams

We don't use auxiliary verbs.