#Reported speech engleski how to#

I agreed that the children could do their homework later.Īpologise + (to + someone) + for + verb-ing.The staff advise that you carry water at all times.Notice the different spelling for the verb and the noun.) I'm afraid there aren't any rules about which verbs follow which patterns. Other reporting verbs follow a variety of patterns. You can read more about this on my page about indirect questions and on my page about reported speech.) We say 'she asked them where the station was', NOT 'she asked them where was the station'. (Remember, my first two examples with 'ask' are no longer real questions, so we use the normal sentence word order. I asked my boss if I could leave early.For questions we use the pattern:Īsk + someone + if / question word + clause We use 'ask' to report questions or requests. When we are reporting orders, we can also use another pattern with 'tell': (The direct speech for this is 'I've seen the new film'.) I told John (that) I had seen the new film.See also my page about the difference between 'say' and 'tell' here. On the other hand, with 'tell' we need to use an object, a person who we tell the information to. (The direct speech for this is 'I've already eaten'.) The basic verb pattern for using 'say' for reported speech is: Let's look first at the verbs we've already talked about. The meaning is exactly the same if you use 'that' or if you don't use 'that'.) I've put it in brackets () to show that it's optional. (As I'm sure you know, we can often choose if we want to use 'that' or not in English. Some of these verbs look a bit more complicated to use than 'say' and 'tell', but it's just a question of getting to know the verb patterns (or verb structures). However, we can also use many other verbs to report what someone said, like 'promise', 'warn', 'advise' and 'recommend'.

#Reported speech engleski how to#

In the page about reported speech, we talked about how to change direct speech ('I love coffee') into reported speech (Seonaid said that she loved coffee), using the verbs 'say', 'tell' and 'ask'. Try an exercise about reporting verbs here.