Unit 6 1º BTO. Direct and Reported Speech.Extension

REPORTED SPEECH : TENSE CHANGES

Cambios en los tiempos verbales: Recuerda que si el verbo de la oración introductoria va en Present Simple, Present Perfect or Future, no se produce ningún cambio en los tiempos verbales de la oración subordinada.

Ejplo: Sheila says, "I'm trying to get a taxi" (Direct Speech) _______Sheila says she is trying to get a taxi (Reported or Indirect Speech).

Pero lo normal es que la oración introductoria tenga un verbo en pasado y es entonces cuando los tiempos verbales de la oración subordinada tienen que cambiar a los suyos correspondientes. Aquí os dejo una ampliación de los cambios en los tiempos vistos en clase. 

VERBAL TENSE CHANGES
DIRECT SPEECH	REPORTED / INDIRECT SPEECH
Present Simple: "I never eat meat," he explained.	Past Simple: He explained that he never ate meat.
Present Continuous: "I'm waiting for Ann," he said.	Past Continuous: He said that he was waiting for Ann.
Past Simple: "Obama won the elections in the USA", he said.	Past Perfect: He said that Obama had won the elections in the USA.
Past Continuous: "They were working hard", he said.	Past Perfect Continuous: He said that he had been working hard.
Present Perfect Simple: "I have found a flat", he said.	Past Perfect Simple: He said that he had found a flat.
Present Perfect Continuous: He said, "I've been waiting for ages." Past Perfect Simple: "I had worked in Paris", she told my sister. Past Perfect Continuous: "They had been studying the new project for years", she explained	Past Perfect Continuous: He said that he had been waiting for ages. Past Perfect Simple: She told my sister that she had worked in Paris. Past Perfect Continuous: She explained that they had been studying the new project for years.
Future "Will": "I'll be in Paris on Monday", he said.	Conditional "Would": He said that he would be in Paris on Monday.
Future "be going to": "They are going to buy a house", he said.	Future "was / were going to": He said that they were going to buy a house.
Modals "can": "We can go to the festival", he said.	Modals "could": He said that they could go to the festival.
Modals "may": "I may go to the concert", he said.	Modals "might": He said that he might go to the concert.
Modals "must": " You must stop here", she said.	Modals "had to": She said that I had to stop there.

Algunos verbos modales no cambian al pasar del estilo directo al indirecto: would, could, might, ought, should, used to ...
Si no lo recuerdas éstos son los cambios en los pronombres objeto (complemento indirecto): I .......me / you......you / he.........him / she.......her / it.....it / we ..........us / they........them.
Y estos otros son los cambios para los adjetivos posesivos: I.......my / you........your / he........his / she......her / it........it / we...........our / they........their.
Recuerda que now pasa a then.
Os dejo algunos links para que podáis practicar en casa: statements, questions, commands, miscellaneous.