Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksExport to PDFBack to top This page is read only. You can view the source, but not change it. Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong. | {{ :en:grammar:reported_speech:n.png?nolink&40 |}}| {{ :en:grammar:reported_speech:y.png?nolink&40 |}}| | It’s depend of… | It depend<color blue>s on</color>… | | I’m agree. I’m not agree. Are you agree? | **<color blue>I agree</color>.\\ I <color blue>don’t</color> agree.\\ <color blue>Do</color> you agree?** | | I’m a responsible of… | I’m responsible <color blue>for</color>… [I have to do something]\\ …the accounts.\\ …making the coffee.\\ <html><br></html>**I’m** a manager.\\ **I’m** the Accounts Manager. | | It’s difficult to be concentrated. | **It’s difficult to <color blue>concentrate.</color>** | | She speaks very well French. | **She speaks very/really <color blue>good</color> French.\\ She speaks French really <color blue>well</color>.** | | We exchange with people in other departments. |**We communicate / We have contact with people in other departments.**\\ **We exchange <color blue>ideas/information/opinions, etc.</color> (with people).**| | At the traffic lights, turn <del>on the</del> right. |**At the traffic lights, turn right.**| | It’s three past twenty.<html><br><br><br></html>It’s seventeen o’clock.<html><br><br></html>It’s half past seventeen. | **It’s twenty past three.\\ It’s 3.20 (three twenty).** <html><br><br></html> **It’s five o’clock.** <html><br><br></html> **It’s half past five.\\ It’s 17.30 (seventeen thirty).** | | I went in/at Paris. | **I went <color blue>to</color> Paris.** | | It’s the same than… | **It’s the same <color blue>as</color>…** | | I participated to a meeting. | **I <color blue>went to</color> a meeting.\\ Some people didn’t participate (<color blue>in</color> the meeting).** [They were at the meeting but they didn’t speak.] | | Welcome in Toulouse. | **Welcome <color blue>to</color> Toulouse.** | | I asked <del>to</del> my boss. | **I asked my boss.** | | We discussed <del>about</del> the problem. <html><br><br><br><br><br></html>I discussed with my manager. | **We <color blue>discussed</color> the problem.**\\ **We <color blue>talked about</color> the problem**.\\ <html><br></html>**We had <color blue>a discussion about</color> the problem.**\\ <html><br></html> **I discussed <color blue>it/the problem/something, etc.</color> with my manager.** | | I go <del>back at</del> home at 6 o’clock. | **I go home at 6 o’clock.** | | Hold on, I check. I call you back later. | **Hold on, I’<color blue>ll</color> check. I’<color blue>ll</color> call you back later.** | | Can you explain <del>me</del>, please?\\ He explained <del>us</del> the problem. | **Can you explain, please?\\ He explained the problem (to us).** | | We have to choice the best supplier. | **We have to <color blue>choose</color> the best supplier.** | | I work here since ten years. | **I’ve worked here\\ …for ten years.\\ …since 2008.** | | I like listening music. | **I like listening <color blue>to</color> music.** | | Most of time…\\ Most of companies… | **Most of <color blue>the</color> time…\\ Most companies…** | | Do you want that I read this? | **Do you want <color blue>me to</color> read this?** | | She's arriving on the ten May. | **She’s arriving on the tenth of May.** [spoken]\\ **She’s arriving on 10<sup>th</sup> May.** | | He’s married with a Spanish woman. | **He’s married <color blue>to</color> a Spanish woman.** | | I was boring in the meeting. | **I was <color blue>bored</color> in the meeting. The meeting was <color blue>boring.</color>** | | Everyone were happy. | **Everyone <color blue>was</color> happy.** | | I very like chocolate. | **I <color blue>really</color> like chocolate.** | | She can to drive. | **She can drive.** | | I don’t know where are the files.. Can you tell me who is the manager? | **I don’t know where the files <color blue>are</color>.**\\ **Can you tell me who the manager <color blue>is</color>?** | | She’s from UK, not US. | **She’s from <color blue>the</color> UK, not <color blue>the</color> US.** | | The office isn’t enough big. | **The office isn’t big <color blue>enough</color>.** [after an adjective]\\ **We have <color blue>enough</color> chairs.** [before a noun] | | I don’t like this colour too. | **I don’t like this colour <color blue>either</color>.**\\ **I like this colour <color blue>too</color>.** | | I worked there during three years. | **I worked there <color blue>for</color> three years.** | | We have all what we need. | **We have all (<color blue>that</color>) we need.**\\ **We have everything we need.** | | I’m technician. | **I’m <color blue>a</color> technician.**\\ **I’m <color blue>an</color>** accountant.\\ **I’m <color blue>the</color>** sales director for this region. | | My son has ten years and my daughter has eight years old. | **My son <color blue>is</color> ten (years old) and my daughter <color blue>is</color> eight.** | | I’m born in 1963.\\ The company was born in 2002. | **I <color blue>was</color> born in 1963.**\\ **The company was <color blue>created / founded</color> in 2002.** | | He went to Australia for study English. | **He went to Australia <color blue>to</color> study English.** | | I was very proud of me. | **I was very proud of <color blue>myself.</color>** | | The year twenty nine -- 2009 | **The year twenty <color blue>o</color> nine**\\ **The year two thousand and nine** | | Let me introduce you Mr Smith. | **Let me introduce you <color blue>to</color> Mr Smith.** | | I've done it yesterday.\\ \\ | **I <color blue>did</color> it yesterday.** | | I will fly to Paris tomorrow.\\ \\ | **I<color blue>’m flying</color> to Paris tomorrow.** | | I’ll call you when I <del>will</del> arrive.\\ I’ll give him your message if I <del>will</del> see him.\\ | **I’ll call you when I arrive.**\\ **I’ll give him your message if I see him.** | | I look forward to meet you. | **I look forward to <color blue>meeting</color> you.** | | He takes care about accounts. | **He takes care <color blue>of</color> accounts.** | | I’m used to live in a city. | **I used to live in a city.** [in the past]\\ **I’m used to living in a city.** [it’s familiar to me] ** ** | | I’m used to work at home on Wednesdays.\\ \\ | **I <color blue>usually</color> work at home on Wednesdays.** | | I arrived to work. | **I arrived <color blue>at</color> work.** | [[en:grammar:home|{{ :file_-_back_3_.png?150 }}]]