Reported speech1 間接引語1
When we report someone’s words we can do it in two ways. We can use direct speech with quotation marks (“I work in a bank”), or we can use reported speech (He said he worked in a bank.)
當我們轉述別人的話的時候，我們能有兩種說法。我們可以用帶引號的直接語氣(“I work in a bank”)，或者用間接引語(He said he worked in a bank.)。
In reported speech the tenses, word-order and pronouns may be different from those in the original sentence.
用間接引語的句子，其時態、單詞順序和代詞可能會跟原句的不同。
Present simple and present continuous tenses 一般現在時和現在進行時
• Direct speech: I travel a lot in my job.
直接語氣: “I travel a lot in my job”
Reported speech:He said that he travelled a lot in his job.
間接引語: He said that he travelled a lot in his job.
The present simple tense (I travel) usually changes to the past simple (he travelled) in reported speech.
一般現在時態，在間接引語裏一般變成一般過去時。
• Direct speech:Be quiet. The baby’s sleeping.
直接語氣: “Be quiet. The baby’s sleeping.”
Reported speech:She told me to be quiet because the baby was sleeping.
間接引語: She told me to be quiet because the baby was sleeping.
The present continuous usually changes to the past continuous.
現在進行時一般變成過去進行時。
Note
注意:
• Reported speech:“I work in Italy”
間接引語: He told me that he works in Italy.
It isn’t always necessary to change the tense. If something is still true now – he still works in Italy – we can use the present simple in the reported sentence.
並不是任何情況下都要改變時態，如果某事現在還是真實的—例句中，他現在還在意大利工作的話，我們就能在用間接引語的時候也用一般現在時態即可。
Past simple and past continuous tenses 一般過去時和過去進行時態
• Direct speech:“We lived in China for 5 years.”
直接語氣: “We lived in China for 5 years.”
Reported speech:She told me they had lived in China for 5 years.
間接引語: She told me they had lived in China for 5 years.
The past simple tense (we lived) usually changes to the past perfect (they had lived) in reported speech.
一般過去時態在間接引語中經常變成過去完成時。
• Direct speech:“I was walking down the road when I saw the accident."
直接語氣: “I was walking down the road when I saw the accident.”
Reported speech:He told me he’d been walking down the road when he’d seen the accident.
間接引語: He told me he’d been walking down the road when he’d seen the accident.
The past continuous usually changes to the past perfect continuous.
過去進行時經常變成過去完成進行時。
Perfect tenses 完成時態
• Direct speech:They’ve always been very kind to me.
直接語氣: “They’ve always been very kind to me”.
Reported speech:She said they’d always been very kind to her.
間接引語: She said they’d always been very kind to her.
The present perfect tense (have always been) usually changes to the past perfect tense (had always been).
現在完成時經常變成過去完成時。
• Direct speech: “They had already eaten when I arrived”
直接引語：“They had already eaten when I arrived”。
Reported speech: He said they’d already eaten when he’d arrived.
間接引語：He said they’d already eaten when he’d arrived.
The past perfect tense does not change in reported speech.
過去完成時態在變成間接引語的時候不用變。
You can find more information about reported speech in another section.
你在另一章節裏可以找到更多關於間接引語的語法信息。
