DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH
Direct Speech
Cuando queremos informar exactamente de lo que otra persona ha dicho, utilizamos el estilo directo. Con este estilo lo que la persona ha dicho se coloca entre comillas (“…”)
"He is going to Brasil next week" (Va a Brasil la semana que viene)
Carol said, "I love painting" (Carol dijo: "Amo pintar")
Reported Speech
El estilo indirecto, no utiliza las comillas y no necesita ser palabra por palabra. En general, cuando se usa el estilo indirecto, el tiempo verbal cambia. A continuación tienes una explicación de los cambios que sufren los tiempos verbales.
A veces se usa “that” en las frases afirmativas y negativas para introducir lo que ha dicho la otra persona.
| Present Simple | Past Simple |
| “Ben is American,” she said. | She said Ben was American. |
| Present Continuous | Past Continuous |
| “Jaques is living in Paris,” she said. | She said Jaques was living in Paris. |
| Past Simple | Past Perfect Simple |
| “They went to the opera last night,” he said. | He told me they had gone to the opera the night before. |
| Present Perfect Simple | Past Perfect Simple |
| Celia said, “I’ve already eaten.” | Celia told me that she’d already eaten. |
| Present Perfect Continuous | Past Perfect Continuous |
| “I’ve been learning German for two years,” he said. | He said he’d been learning German for two years. |
Here I leave a useful chart. Hope you find it interesting
This is a chart showing how tenses change
This is a chart which shows how some demonstrative pronouns and some expressions of time change
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