David Osorio, Carlos Ospina and Andrés Monsalve invite the reader to learn about reported speech. Reported speech refers to recounting something someone said to you or someone else. For example, saying "He said that he had been the athletics captain at school" instead of the direct quote "I was the athletics captain at school." When changing direct speech to reported speech, you may need to change pronouns, verbs, place/time expressions, and tenses. There are also rules for transforming statements, questions, and requests.

1. REPORTED SPEECH
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3.  When you use report speech , you are refering to something that
someone said to you or to someone else.
 For example:
• I was the atlethics captain at school(direct speech)
• He said that he had been the athletics captain at school(indirect speech)

4. ¿WHAT IS REPORTED
SPEECH ?
 If we report what another person has said, we usually do not use
the speaker’s exact words (direct speech), but reported (indirect)
speech. Therefore, you need to learn how to transform direct speech
into reported speech. The structure is a little different depending on
whether you want to transform a statement, question or request.

5. ANOTHER EXAMPLE…
 Type Example
 direct speech: “Carol, speak English.“
 reported speech: He told Carol to speak English.

6. BE CAREFUL OF:
 When transforming statements, check whether you have
to change:
• pronouns
• present tense verbs (3rd person singular)
• place and time expressions
• tenses (backshift)

7. THERE IS SOME
ADITIONAL INFORMATION.
 Apart from the above mentioned basic rules, there are further aspects
that you should keep in mind, for example:
 main clauses connected with and / but
 tense of the introductory clause
 reported speech for difficult tenses
 exeptions for backshift
 requests with must, should, ought to and let’s.