Reported Speech

El Reported speech o Estilo indirecto es una estructura que usamos cuando reportamos o
hacemos mencin sobre algo que alguien ha dicho previamente.

Changes in the tenses.Cambios de los tiempos verbales en el Reported Specch. El verbo principal retrocede un
tiempo verbal: si en directo tenemos: "I live in Italy". She said. En reported speech: "She
said that she lived in Italy".

Direct Speech

Reported Speech

Present

Past

"I work in Argentina"

He said that he worked in Argentina

"I am doing my job"

Past

He said that he was doing his job

Past Perfect

"We saw a good film on TV"

He said they had seen a good film

on TV.

"I was dancing with Mary"

He said he had been dancing with

Mary

Present Perfect

"I have done this before"

She said that she had done that

before

"I have been doing this for

two years"
Future

Past Perfect

He said that he had been doing that

for two years

Conditional

Reported Speech
"I will visit my mother"

He said that he would visit his

mother

"I will be flying to Spain"

Future Perfect

He said that he would be flying to

Spain

"I will have arrived there by

5 pm"
"I will have been selling
books for two years"

Conditional Perfect

He said he would have arrived here

by 5 pm
He said that he would have been
selling books for two years

References to time and place.Los adverbios tanto de tiempo como espacio tambin se modifican al pasar a reported
speech: today/ yesterday, this week/ that week, here/ there. Aqu encontrars algunos
ejemplos de su uso.

Direct Speech

Reported Speech

now

then, at that moment

today

that day

tonight

that night

last night

the previous night, the night before

tomorrow

the next day, the following day

Reported Speech
yesterday

the previous day, the day before

this week

that week

next week

the following week, the week after

last year

the previous year, the year before

here

there

now then, at that moment

today that day

Changes in questions.En las preguntas pasamos de pregunta directa a indirecta. Where do they sell the tickets?,
pasa a ser: He asked where they sold the tickets. Aqu hay ms ejemplos con traducciones.

Direct Speech

Reported Speech

What
"What are you looking for?"

He asked what I was looking for

She asked where they could go that

night

Where
"Where can we go tonight?"

When

Reported Speech
"When did they go to
India?"

He asked when they had gone to

India

He asked me who had told me that

He asked how old the twins were

He asked why Carla had left so early

She asked me which skirt I had

chosen

He asked whose dog was missing

"Are these your glasses?"

He asked me if those were my

glasses

"Isn't that Jen's boyfriend?"

She asked me if that wasn't Jen's

boyfriend

Who
"Who told you that?"

How
"How old are the twins?"

Why
"Why did Carla leave so
early?"
Which
"Which skirt did you
choose?"
Whose
"Whose dog is missing?"

Yes-no questions