Reported speech

07/01/2021

Licence 2 langue arabe et civilisation islamique

8th lesson

Reported speech

Reported or indirect speech 

Direct speech "i love you"

Indirect speech: he said that he loved her

Used reported speech to say what another person said.

I love you. He said that he loved her.

"I can help you" / he said that he could help me. 

"i'll phone you"/ he told me that he would phone me.

.that  is optional after say and tell.

.pronouns also change in reported speech,for example

I changes to he/ she,etc

I'm coming. She told me that she was coming.

You can use said or told in reported speech but they are used differently.

-you can't use said with an object or pronoun

- you must use told with an object

He told her that he loved her not he told that