REPORTED SPEECH – ESTILO INDIRECTO

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CUID – INGLÉS A2 UNIT 12.2
REPORTED SPEECH – ESTILO INDIRECTO
Podemos contar lo que alguien dijo anteriormente utilizando el estilo directo o el
estilo indirecto:
1. Estilo directo: se repite las palabras de manera exacta y se usan
comillas:
Eg.: “I live in London,” she said
E.g.: “We bought the house 3 years ago”, Peter said.
2. Estilo Indirecto: se dice lo que alguien ha dicho o ha pensado pero no se
usan las palabras exactas.
E.g.: She said that she liven in London
E.g.: Peter said that they had bought the house 3 yeas ago.
A.- CAMBIOS EN LOS TIEMPOS VERBALES
ESTILO DIRECTO
Presente
“I listen to the radio every day” she
said.
Presente Continuo
“I am reading a novel here now” she
said
Pretérito
Perfecto
(Present
Perfect)
“I have cleaned my room” he said
Pasado Simple
“They went to the school yesterday”
he said
ESTILO INDIRECTO
Pasado Simple
She said that she listened to the radio
every day
Pasado Continuo
She said that she was reading a novel
there then
Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto (Past
Perfect)
He said that he had cleaned his room
Préterito Pluscuamperfecto (Past
Perfect)
He said that they had gone to the
cinema the day before / the previous day
Futuro
Condicional
“I will go to London tomorrow” John John said that he would go to London
said
the day after / the next day
Condicional
Condicional
“If I had more money, I would buy a He said that if he had more money, he
bigger house” he said
would buy a bigger house.
B.- ESTILO INDIRECTO: RUEGOS Y PREGUNTAS
Las oraciones de ruego y mandato pierden su estructura típica al pasar a estilo
indirecto
• El imperativo pasa a infinitivo
E.g.: “Open the window!” > he ordered me to open the door
E.g.: “Don’t be late for dinner” > She asked us not to be late for dinner
• Los verbos del estilo indirecto pasan a ser tell, order, request, beg, urge,
etc
• En estilo indirecto debe haber el complemento de persona a quien va
dirigido la orden
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E.g.: “Run quickly” > he told John to run quickly.
En las oraciones que se utilizan para expresar una sugerencia, se utiliza el
verbo “suggest + gerundio”
ESTILO DIRECTO
“Shall we go to the cinema?”
“Let’s go to the cinema”
“Do you feel like going to the cinema?”
“What about going to the cinema?”
ESTILO INDIRECTO
He suggested going to the cinema
La expresiones exclamativas
E.g.: “What a wonderful concert!” > she exclaimed what a wonderful concert it
was
C.- ESTILO INDIRECTO: PREGUNTAS
Las oraciones interrogativas pierden su estructura típica al pasar a estilo
indirecto
E.g.: “Is she at home?” > he asked if / whether she was at home
E.g.: “What is your name?” > he asked me what my name was.
E.g.: “Where do you go after work?” >he asked me where I went after work.
E.g.: “What did she do?” > he asked what she had done
D.- LOS VERBOS “TO TELL” Y “TO SAY”
• Tell + CI + CD: I told him the problem
• Tell + CD + to + CI: I told the problem to him
• Tell + pron / nombre + infinitvo / oración subordinada:
E.g.: I told them to come here
E.g.: I told them that I was coming.
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Se usa para el estilo indirecto: declarativas con “that”, de mandato con
“infinitivo con to”.
• Say + (to CI) + oración “that”: I said (to you) that it was important
• Say + oración “that”
• Say + complemento / so: He said nothing about the problem / he said so.
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Se usa para el estilo directo.
Nunca seguido de infinitivo (tell)
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