REPORTED SPEECH
Damos el significado exacto de una observación o un discurso sin necesariamente usar las
palabras exactas del hablante. SAY y TELL + un objeto se utilizan con frecuencia en el
estilo indirecto, pero hay otros muchos verbos.
VERBS
Direct Speech Indirect Speech
Present Simple Past Simple
Present Continuous Past Continuous
Past Simple Past Perfect Simple
Past Continuous Past Perfect Continuous
Future with WILL WOULD
Future Continuous WOULD BE + V –ing
IS / ARE GOING TO WAS / WERE GOING TO
Present Perfect Simple Past Perfect Simple
Present Perfect Continuous Past Perfect Continuous
Past Perfect No cambia
CAN COULD
MAY MIGHT
MUST MUST / HAD TO
COULD / MIGHT / SHOULD / WOULD No cambian
-El pasado simple y el continuo, en oraciones de tiempo, no suelen cambiar.
“When we were living in London…” He said (that) when they were living in London…
-El pasado simple referido a una situación que no cambia, no se cambia porque no tiene
sentido.
“I decided not to buy the house because it was on a main road” He said he had decided not
buy the house because it was on a main road.
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