Langue anglaise · Ethics in Business
Reported speech — reporting statements
Turning exactly what someone said into someone else's account of it
6 minutes
Le contenu académique est en arabe, comme au BAC et comme dans l’application.
Ce que le programme attend de toi
- Converting direct statements to reported statements (tense back-shift, pronoun/time-word changes)
La méthode
- Back-shift one tense step; swap this/here/now/ago for that/there/then/before
Les erreurs fréquentes
- Forgetting the tense back-shift
- Keeping 'said to' instead of 'told'
Extrait du cours
A workplace inspector writes her report the next day. She cannot copy his exact words as they stand: she has to turn them into a reported statement.
Le vocabulaire
- say vs tell (قال مقابل أخبر)
- reported statement (قول منقول)
Ce qui n’est pas au programme
- Reported questions/instructions (treated in the Feelings and Emotions unit)