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El Reported Speech o el también llamado “estilo indirecto”, es una estructura que se usa cuando
queremos hacer mención a algo que alguien ha dicho previamente. Pero antes de empezar con los
ejemplos y dar mayor claridad al asunto, hay unas palabras que debemos aprender antes de usar el
estilo indirecto, ya que éstas se usan cuando queremos usar el estilo indirecto.
Here There
Hay algunas palabras más, pero esas son esenciales. Veremos el porqué hay que aprenderse estas
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Present simple: “I eat hamburgers every day.” Past simple: He said (that) he ate hamburgers
every day.
Present continuous: “I am reading a book.” Past Continuous: He said (that) he was reading a
book.
Past simple: “I bought a new laptop.” Past perfect: He said (that) he had bought a new
laptop.
Past continuous: “I was playing tennis at 11 o Past Perfect Continuous: He said (that) he had
Present Perfect: “I have finished my homework.” Past Perfect: He said (that) he had finished his
homework.
Past Perfect: “I had studied English for years.” Past Perfect: He said (that) he had studied
English for years.
Future (will): “I will go and buy some food.” Conditional (Would): He said (that) he would go
and buy some food.
Future (going to): “I am going to travel a lot.” Was/were going to: He said (that) he was going
to travel a lot.
Modal verbs: “I can play the piano very well.”“I He said (that) he could play the piano very well.
must go home.” He said (that) he had to go home.
Nota: Además del past perfect y el condicional would, tampoco se cambia al usar los verbos modales
could, should y might.
Si tenéis problemas a la hora de saber qué forma verbal es, echadle un vistazo al mini curso de gramática
básica.
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A continuación vemos que también cambia un poco la estructura al hacer referencia al tiempo, lugar
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y en preguntas. Y gracias a las palabras que he dicho que había que memorizar antes, hacer este tipo de
estilo indirecto será más fácil. Veámoslo mejor con unos ejemplos:
Estilo directo (Direct Speech) Estilo indirect (Reported Speech)
Alberto: “I don´t want to go now.” Alberto said (that) he didn´t want to go then.
Jaime: “I started to work today.” Jaime said (that) he had started to work that day.
Maria: “I wanted to go out yesterday.” Maria said (that) she had wanted to go out last
night.
Felicity: “I´m going to go to Spain next week.” Felicity said (that) she was going to Spain the
following week.
Luke: “What are you doing for a living?” Luke asked me what I did for a living.
Lisa: “Where can we go tonight?” Lisa asked where we could go that night.
Mario: “When are you going to come back?” Mario asked when I was going to come back.
Gary: “How much money have you spent?” He asked me how much money I had spent.
Lucy: “Which lipstick did you choose?” She asked me which lipstick I had chosen.
Elliott: “Whose cat is missing?” She asked whose cat was missing.
Scott: “Isn´t that Jaime´s cat?” Scott asked me if that wasn´t Jaime´s cat.
Como véis, he usado solamente en los ejemplos los verbos “say” y “ask” para que sea más fácil de
aprender, pero hay una infinidad de verbos que se suelen utilizar en el estilo indirecto como pueden
ser “invite”, “complain”, “suggest”, “refuse”, “insult”, y un largo etcétera. Con práctica y más práctica
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automaticamente uno sabrá reconocer que verbo hay que usar.
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Para practicar os dejo con estas dos páginas con ejercicios:
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