hello everyone this is Marc, from WWW
Englishmarc.net she said she wanted to
visit Italy one day, I answered I would
be waiting for her visit. In this video
I'm going to talk about the direct and
indirect speech. The direct speech is
saying what someone has just said so I
could say I'm talking to you in
quotation marks the indirect speech
instead is reporting what someone has
said so is used a lot in journalism but
how do we make the indirect speech, we
make it with the sentence without
quotation marks because is indirect
speech that we use a tense back, so for
example in the introductory sentence I
gave you at the beginning she said
she wanted to visit Italy one day, so is
in past simple. We have here a list of
the tenses of how the tenses change
from direct speech to indirect speech so
we have first as you can see, the present
simple it changes to the past simple
then we have the present continuous it
changes into the past continuous the
present perfect changes into the past
simple the past simple changes into the
past perfect the past continuous
changes into the past perfect continuous
then we have also must changes to had to
will changes into would can changes into
could shall changes into should and may
changes into might. These are the
tenses that change into from the direct
speech into the indirect speech now
let's look at the expressions okay that
change, so this for example changes
into that today changes into yesterday
these changes into those now changes
into then a week ago for example changes
into a week before last week changes
into the previous week here changes
into there next changes into the
following and tomorrow changes into the
following or next day the following
day or next day an important thing to
remember is that if the sentence is
always true it remains with the same
tense so for example water boils at 100
degrees so I know that this sentence is
always true so when you when you want to
report it you can say: Marc said water
boils at 100 degrees, so it doesn't
change, this is important to remember so
let's recap now the direct speech is
saying what exactly someone said
like in my example I am talking to you
with quotation marks the
indirect speech instead is to report
also called the reported speech
to report one some what someone had
said it is used in journalism a lot okay
and don't forget that we need to take
one tense back so the present simple
changes into the past simple the present
continuous changes
into the past continuous and so on
you need to learn this ahh one
other thing don't forget that if
sentence we want to report is always
true like in the example I gave you water
boils at 100 degrees when you report it
stays the same - can you report the whole
video under this video ? don't worry
it's just I'm just kidding okay so if
you want you can write your own sentence
report it speech or indirect speech
under this video I hope you enjoyed the
video and I see you next time take care
have fun bye bye