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Estilo directo e indirecto
1 Direct speech / Estilo directo
Utilizamos el estilo directo cuando reproducimos exactamente lo que otra persona ha dicho. La frase que ha dicho la persona se coloca entre comillas ("...").
Ejemplo:
My brother said "I'm going on holiday".
"I love cooking", John said.
2Reported speech / Estilo indirecto
En el estilo indirecto se dice lo que una tercera ha dicho a través de:
pasado del verbo 'say' + (that) + clause
pasado del verbo 'tell' + object pronoun + that + clause
pasado del verbo 'tell' + object pronoun + that + clause
En el estilo indirecto, los tiempos verbales se modifican:
Verb tenseDirect speechReported speech
| Present simple Past simple | We play the guitar | We said (that) we played the guitar |
| Present continuous Past continuous | We are playing the guitar | We told him (that) we were playing the guitar |
| Simple past Past perfect /Simple past(*No change) | We played the guitar | We said (that) we played the guitar / We said (that) we had played the guitar |
| Past continuous Past perfect continuous | We were playing the guitar | We told him (that) we had been playing the guitar |
| Present perfect Past perfect | We have played the guitar | We said that we had played the guitar |
| Present perfect continuous Past perfect continuous | We have been playing the guitar | We said that we had been playing the guitar |
| Past perfect Past perfect (*No change) | We had played the guitar | We said (that) we had played the guitar |
| Past perfect continuous Past perfect continuous (*No change) | We had been playing the guitar | We said (that) we had been playing the guitar |
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Some answers are not correct
Hi Jake, thank you for you comment. We corrected the little errors that made their way in our article. :)