Ejemplos de reported speech
Reported speech
Se trata de un estilo indirecto a través del cual puedes explicar, decir, contar algo con tus propias palabras modificando el tiempo verbal en pasado. Se puede diferenciar del discurso directo ya que con este debes escribir y decir todo de forma textual.
Reglas del reported speech
- Los tiempos verbales pueden cambiar. En el reported speech los tiempos verbales cambian a pasado.
- Los tiempos verbales en los casos de los verbos modales también cambian una vez pasado del estilo directo al estilo indirecto.
- Las frases adverbiales o tiempos adverbiales sufren cambios cuando se habla en estilo indirecto en tiempo presente al pasado.
Ejemplos de Reported speech
- Maria asked Juan what he is doing. And she said she had not seen him since the last week.
- Juan explained that he had just come from the hospital.
- Maria wondered if he is ok. And asked him what happen.
- Juan told her that he catches a hard flu, but he added that he is fine now.
- Maria said him that she is glad to hear that.
- Cambio de presente simple a pasado simple: “I’m on my way”, said Brad.
Brad said he was on his way.
- “I like the idea.”
He said he liked the idea.
- “I know what to do.”
She said she knew what to do.
- Cambio de can a could y de will a would: “I can’t hear you.”
He said he couldn’t hear me.
- “I can’t come to the meeting”.
He said he couldn’t come to the meeting.
- “I’ll see you tomorrow.”
She said she would see me the next day.
- “I’ll be there at 9 o’clock.”
She said she’d be here at 9 o’clock.
Adverbios de tiempo en estilo directo y adverbios de tiempo en estilo indirecto
- Today / Tonight : That day / That night
- This day / week / month / year: That day / week / month / year
- Tomorrow: The next day
- Next day / week / month / year: The following day / week / month / year
- Yesterday: The previous day / The day before
- Last week / month / year: The previous week / month / year or the previous week / month/year
- Now: At that moment / then
- Here: There