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'say' vs 'tell' in quoted and indirect (reported) speech
In today's Grammar HELP! Student Handbook - Online! lesson we begin our end of chapter exercises, for our chapter, Indirect Speech (also known as Reported Speech).
Please keep in mind that all the examples
you see below were contributed by ESL students in their
writing and reading classes. We
bring you only authentic writing.
Quoted to Reported
The following paragraph is from an
ESL student's writing that describes a portion of a
conversation between the writer and his father. This
portion was written in direct speech but would benefit
from the use of indirect speech.
Rewrite this conversation using only reported speech.
Edit for sentence structure, punctuation, pronoun change
and verb tense - all factors that we have learned about
in this chapter.
Use the "Sequence
of Tenses" charge to help you with verb tense changes,
when required.
(1) My father couldn't write in English.
(2) I said to myself, "He is my father and I should
help him." (3) So I told him, "I want you
to learn to write and read." (4) I said
to my father, "Every Saturday we are going to spend
five hours together and you are going to learn."
95) And so I sat down with him and I taught him
to write English. (6) I taught him to sign
his name and I was proud of him. (7) My
fahter was so proud of himself, too.
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