Name: Reported Speech: The Grammar Gameshow Episode 25
Uploaded: 2022-05-01T16:50:07.000Z
Duration: 10 min 16 s
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Hello, and welcome to today’s Grammar Gameshow!

Leslie, our all-knowing voice in the sky.

Tonight, we’re going to ask you three questions about…

that’s useful for gossip, rumour, hearsay and conjecture!

I came to see how you’re getting on, poppet.

Your mum tells me you’re doing so well.

Aren’t you going to introduce me to your little friend?

Our first round is a straight-up questions round.

What are the three most commonly used verbs

Tell me one verb pattern for say, tell and ask.

Ask someone if or whether or question word.

No. I’ll take this one, if you don’t mind, dearie.

I remember when you were just a little sprite,

and we saw an ostrich for the first time.

Reported speech is used to inform the listener

what was said by someone on a different occasion.

The three most common reported speech verbs are

Say is commonly used without a personal pronoun

Will told Nana Will it was a big chicken.

Finally, ask is used in reported questions.

Ask can be followed by a pronoun and then if or whether

or a question word for a question word question.

Good work, Bill. Have Fifteen points for you.

What usually happens when to the tense of a sentence

Well done. Let’s have a practice, shall we?

and you give me the reported speech version.

Who’s been playing with my question cards?

I wanted to be an elephant when I was a child.

He told me he had wanted to be an elephant

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Reported Speech: The Grammar Gameshow Episode 25

absolutely

context

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