Inspiration 7

The language chart introduces reported speech using said and told. Reported speech paraphrases a direct quote. It communicates what that person said without using the exact same language. Note that in reported speech, there is often (though not always) a change in tense from direct speech. This is illustrated in the grammar chart, where the direct speech is in simple present tense, but when reported, changes to simple past. In reported speech, the word that can optionally follow the reporting verb: He said that she inspired him. / He said she inspired him. The verb tell is always followed by the object who received the information: He told me that she inspired him. When tell is used to report a command or advice, the verb is in the infinitive: He told me to go to school.

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