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Reported speech?
Hi!
I have a little problem with the reported speech.
I just don't know how I should put this sentence into the reported speech:
"Why don't we go to the cinema tomorrow?"
Thanks!
5 Antworten
- vilgessuolaLv 6vor 1 JahrzehntBeste Antwort
I have been teaching English for 25 years and my colleagues and I mostly agree that teaching 'reported speech' is a waste of time. In real life we hardly ever give a word for word report of what anyone said: we just give a summary The changes in tense time adverbs depend ENTIRELY on context, so it is hard to say what a reported version of your sentence would be. An all purpose one could be:
'I suggested going to the cinema the next day'
Quelle(n): EFL teacher / teacher trainer - DoethinebLv 7vor 1 Jahrzehnt
The suggestion was made that we might go to the cinema the following day.
- PacitoLv 5vor 1 Jahrzehnt
he suggested - they suggested , I suggested ( don't know who but you decide
She suggested we went to the cinema the following day.
- Vanessa83Lv 6vor 1 Jahrzehnt
"She (or he or they) asked whether we should go to the cinema."
When the direct speech is a question with interrogative you have to transform the question into an indirect question, and use the interrogative or 'if' 'I' 'whether'.
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- vor 1 Jahrzehnt
"They asked if we should go to the cinema"
Greetings!!
