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  • Hi, there, guys. Welcome back. We're going to do a lesson today on using indirect speech.

  • What does that mean? Well, this is where we are relating something that someone said.

  • I'm going to talk you through the differences between indirect speech -- or reported speech

  • -- and direct speech, using these little things called "quotation marks" or "speech marks".

  • I'm going to give you some useful vocab for using reported speech, and showing you the

  • difference between "tell" and "say". I hope it's useful.

  • So my friend Billy, he's not feeling very well today. So he says, "I'm feeling sick."

  • Now, if I'm using direct speech, that's where I use my quotation marks, my speech marks.

  • I would write it like this: Billy said -- with a little comma -- "I'm feeling sick." -- end

  • of quotation marks. But if I'm using reported speech, this is I don't use his exact words,

  • and I don't use these quotation marks. So I could say in reported speech: Billy said

  • that he was feeling sick. I have used the same words here. But look. I'm using "said

  • that" and no quotation marks.

  • Now, what are the differences between reported speech and direct speech? Well, direct speech

  • uses the present. Look here. "I'm feeling sick." "I am" is obviously in the present.

  • Whereas reported speech is going to use past. He said that he was feeling sick.

  • So these are how we put some verbs into the past -- irregular verbs. Here, look. "I am"

  • goes to "he was". "Am" goes to "was". "Are" would go to "were". So if Billy said,

  • "You are a jerk", in reported speech, it would be, "Billy said that you were a jerk." "Do"

  • and "does" would go to "did". So if Billy is saying, "I do play snooker", it would be

  • in reported speech, "Billy said that he did play snooker on Tuesday last week." Okay?

  • "Have" and "has" would go to "had". "Will" is going to go to "would". "Can" is going

  • to go to "could". Okay? Difficult spellings. Doesn't sound how it's spelled. And then,

  • with your regular verbs, it's going to go to + ed. So Billy might say, "I want to party

  • tonight." If I'm going to do reported speech, it would be, "Billy said that he wanted to

  • party tonight." Okay? I hope you're with me so far. I hope you're understanding.

  • Good, good, good.

  • Now, "tell" is a little bit different to "say". So when I use the verb "tell", I know whom

  • the person is talking to. For example, "Billy told me that you were a jerk." So "talking

  • to me", so I use "tell". I know who the person is talking to. But when I use "say", we don't

  • know who the person is talking to. So "Billy said that you were kissing at school." Okay?

  • "Said" -- it doesn't say "me". It doesn't say "said me". It just says "said". Okay?

  • So we don't know who the person is talking to. Obviously, he's probably talking to me,

  • but it doesn't say that here, so I need to use "said". Okay?

  • Now, some interesting verbs to make your writing a bit more fluent, a bit more interesting

  • to read. I could use "inform". Okay? This is just going to take -- so if I'm using reported

  • speech, remember I'm going to put it into the past. So here, it's a regular verb, so

  • I'll add -ed. "Billy informed me that he was going to be late for my lesson." We've already

  • done "said". "Billy said that he was feeling sick." "Billy answered with the correct answer."

  • Okay? So this is regular. I'm going to add in my -ed. "Billy reported to me that Sandra

  • was behaving badly." You're a naughty girl, Sandra. Billy has reported you. Now, this

  • one's going to go irregular, "reply". "Billy replied that the lunch was disgusting." Okay.

  • How do we form this? Well, we take off the Y and put -ed, -ied. "Billy replied that the

  • lunch was disgusting." Now, "respond". This is regular. "Billy responded that he was happy

  • to be alive" -- -ed, okay? I'm playing around here. So "suggest" is going to be -ed and

  • "persuade", -ed. What do these mean? "Inform" means "give information". You know what "said"

  • is. "Answer", question, answer. "Report", like, report, give some information again.

  • "Reply" is question, answer. "Respond" is just answer. "Suggest" is like -- it's like

  • a whisper. "I suggested to the bus driver that he put his foot on the accelerator."

  • "Suggest" -- it's an idea, a suggestion. And "persuade" is when you're persuading, "Come

  • on, everybody. Make sure you do the quiz after this. You know where to find it, www.engvid.com."

  • That is the end of today's lesson. Please remember to subscribe to my YouTube channel,

  • and if you need a bit of extra help, go to -- what is it? Exquisite English, a Facebook

  • page. That's my page. Well done. Hope you remember this. Direct speech -- remember using

  • the inverted commas. Present tense, reported speech, in the past. And we often use "said

  • that" or one of these interesting verbs. Well done. Good concentration. See you next time.

Hi, there, guys. Welcome back. We're going to do a lesson today on using indirect speech.

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