Langue anglaise · Feelings and Emotions
Reported speech — reporting instructions/orders
Turn a spoken command into someone else's sentence
6 minutes
Le contenu académique est en arabe, comme au BAC et comme dans l’application.
Ce que le programme attend de toi
- Converting instructions/orders to reported speech (told/ordered + to-infinitive)
La méthode
- Instruction/order → subject + told/ordered + object + to-infinitive, dropping the imperative form
Les erreurs fréquentes
- Using a that-clause instead of the to-infinitive after told/ordered
Extrait du cours
A guard shouts an order. A moment later, someone else describes what happened, without repeating the exact words.
Le vocabulaire
- told sb to do sth (أمره بأن)
Ce qui n’est pas au programme
- Reported statements (treated in the Ethics in Business unit)
- Reported questions (previous concept)