DISCOURS DIRECT

DISCOURS INDIRECT

Ponctuation : les guillemets disparaissent au discours indirect, comme les points d’interrogation

“Hello”, she said.

“What time is it ?”, he asked.

She said hello.

He asked what time it was.

Marqueurs spatio-temporels

Here

Yesterday/Last week/Last year

Tomorrow/Next week/Next month

There

The day before/The week before/The year before

The day after/The week after/The month after

Pronoms personnels et adjectifs et pronoms possessifs (quand la personne qui rapporte le discours n’est pas celle qui l’a rononcé.)

I

We

Us

My

Our

Mine

Ours

He/She

They

Them

His/Her

Their

His/Hers

Theirs

Temps

! Si le verbe introducteur est au présent, il n’y a pas de changement de temps.

Présent

“I am hungry”, he said.

“Mark is going to school”, she said.

Futur

“We will pass our exam”, they said.

Present perfect

“Jenny has seen this man before”, I said.

Prétérit

“I went to Ireland last year”, he said.

Impératif

“Don’t answer me back”, she said.

Prétérit

He said he was hungry.

She said Mark was going to school.

Conditionnel

They said they would pass their exam.

Past perfect

I said Jenny had seen this man before.

Past perfect

He said he had been to Ireland the year before.

Infinitif

She told him not to answer her back.

Modaux

Can

“I can swim”, she said.

May

“It may rain”, they said.

Must

“I must do her homework”, he said.

Shouldn’t

“You shouldn’t do that.”, she said.

Could

She said she could swim.

Might

They said it might rain.

Must

He said he must do his homework.

Shouldn’t

She said he shouldn’t do that.