![]() ![]() Next are Jeff’s business partner Bobby (Casey Affleck), and Bobby’s fianc0圎9e, who is also the Chief’s daughter, Ellen (Neve Campbell). First, there are Mona’s husband Phil (William Fichtner), and their one-handed son Jeff (Marcus Thomas). The Chief begins with the most obvious suspects. So when her Yugo mysteriously drives off the road and plunges into the river, local police Chief Wyatt Rash (Danny DeVito) knows he’ll have a long list of suspects to pick from-a list that could even include himself. Apparently the whole community of Verplanck NY despises her. Go ahead and try a few examples.Somewhere, there probably are people like Mona Dearly (Bette Midler). you are all se to change the direct to reported speech. With that, you have everything it takes to understand reported speech. Today / the next day / the following day / Friday The day before yesterday / the day before / Wednesday / the 5th of December Yesterday / that day / Tuesday / the 27th of June Reported speech- Time transitions: Direct speech Reported speech: She told me not to worry.Reported speech: She told me to sit down.Also, when in orders, sometimes subjects are omitted but while reporting we have to revive the subjects. Now how will you report them? Unlike the request, the reporting verb isn’t ask but told or tell. Well, not everyone is going to be polite. Just add this rule to your reported speech and you have what is called a reported request. Reported request = ask me + to + verb or requested me + to +verb Let’s see how do we convert these into reported speech. Remember? Could you please try to remember? And then there are request statements. Reported speech: She asked if I was eating my vegetables.Direct speech: Are you eating your vegetables?.Reported speech: She asked me if I had ever seen the Van Gogh paintings. ![]() Direct speech: Have you ever seen the Van Gogh paintings?.Reported speech: He asked me if i would like to eat some cupcakes.Direct speech: Would you like to eat some cupcakes?.What about the questions that has yes/no answers to them? In these type of questions just add “if” before asking the question. Now these are questions that have wordy answers to them. She asked me if I was going to her house. Remember the tense change? Let’s apply that to a few questions now. Notice how the question mark is gone from the reported speech. Reported speech: She asked me where I wanted to eat. The only difference is that when you report a question, you no more report it in the form of a question but in the form of a statement. Well the good news is that the tense change you learnt above stays the same in reported speech for questions. Reported questions- It’s quite interesting. What happens when the sentence we are trying to report was actually a question? That’s something we are going to deal with in this section. Reported speech: She said that the sun rises/rose from the East. For example-ĭirect speech: The sun rises from the East. must stays must or had to(matter of choice)Įxception: A present tense in direct speech may not become a past tense in the reported speech if it’s a fact or something generic we are talking about in the sentence.Some word transitions from direct to reported speech that will come in handy: He said he had trekked the Himalayas this time last year I had trekked the Himalayas this time last year She said that she had been walking near the beach She said she had gone to school that morning ![]() Just come back to this table after this section and use this as a summary table: Tense This is a summary table that will be crystal clear to you as you read further. ![]() Learn more about Parts of Speech here in detail Reported speech- Play of the tenses: Direct speech tense Browse more Topics under Transformation Sentences But of the reporting verb is in the past tense, we do change the tense of the sentence. The tense doesn’t have to be changed in this case of reported speech. This sentence could also have been written as “She said she loves to play football.”) (Note 1 : Assume a gender if not mentioned already. Reported speech: She said that she loves to play football. Whenever you report a speech there’s a reporting verb used like “say” or “tell”. ![]()
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