Direct speech: Have you ever seen the Van Gogh paintings?.Reported speech: He asked me if i would like to eat some cupcakes.Direct speech: Would you like to eat some cupcakes?.What about the questions that has yes/no answers to them? In these type of questions just add “if” before asking the question. Now these are questions that have wordy answers to them. She asked me if I was going to her house. Remember the tense change? Let’s apply that to a few questions now. Notice how the question mark is gone from the reported speech. Reported speech: She asked me where I wanted to eat. The only difference is that when you report a question, you no more report it in the form of a question but in the form of a statement. Well the good news is that the tense change you learnt above stays the same in reported speech for questions. Reported questions- It’s quite interesting. What happens when the sentence we are trying to report was actually a question? That’s something we are going to deal with in this section. Reported speech: She said that the sun rises/rose from the East. For example-ĭirect speech: The sun rises from the East. must stays must or had to(matter of choice)Įxception: A present tense in direct speech may not become a past tense in the reported speech if it’s a fact or something generic we are talking about in the sentence.Some word transitions from direct to reported speech that will come in handy: He said he had trekked the Himalayas this time last year I had trekked the Himalayas this time last year She said that she had been walking near the beach She said she had gone to school that morning Just come back to this table after this section and use this as a summary table: Tense This is a summary table that will be crystal clear to you as you read further. Learn more about Parts of Speech here in detail Reported speech- Play of the tenses: Direct speech tense Browse more Topics under Transformation Sentences But of the reporting verb is in the past tense, we do change the tense of the sentence. The tense doesn’t have to be changed in this case of reported speech. This sentence could also have been written as “She said she loves to play football.”) (Note 1 : Assume a gender if not mentioned already. Reported speech: She said that she loves to play football. Activations around the world, including in Sydney’s ironic Bondi Icebergs brought real-world hype to a very online campaign and helped convince fans to don the pink cowboy hat and dress before heading into see it.Whenever you report a speech there’s a reporting verb used like “say” or “tell”. Of course, the marketing for Barbie has been a triumph. “Barbie is everything expected of it and so much more, a self-aware and meta-comedy made for fans and newcomers alike that’s also incredibly profound, layered and really funny.”Īnother said that it was a “colourful love letter to humankind” and scored it a perfect 10.īut, another, scoring it four out of 10 said that “the marketing was more entertaining than the actual movie” and that “as much as it succeeds at campy comedy and musical numbers, its attempts at feminist commentary and existentialism fall flat.” While these four men are particularly angry about Barbie, it has not been universally well-received by moviegoers. Though, that last one doesn’t sound too bad to us. “A pink acid trip that feels like being slapped by lots of confusingly attractive people.” “An alienating, dangerous and perverse film.” I took 1 star reviews of #Barbie from furious men on letterboxd and put them on the posters because it makes the film seem ever cooler. It would make for a very interesting departure for movie marketing campaigns if someone, somewhere were to do it for real. While Barbie seems to have captured the public’s imagination, drawing big box office numbers over its opening weekend, not everyone has been quite as taken with Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster.Īs one might expect, men on the internet have been apoplectic with rage at the film with its day-glow pink hues and Bechdel test-passing script.Ĭomedy writer (real name Aaron Gillies) had the great idea to take the impotent rage of disgruntled misogynists and flip it to create mock posters for the film.
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