Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 53

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• 00:10

  Hi there, and welcome back to the english podcast, where I try to help you with the understanding of english grammar for those of you at or around intermediate level using english sentences.

• 00:22

  As always, I'm going to read these sentences twice, once for just a general understanding, and then the second time to be a little bit more specific as to the grammatical aspects of the sentence.

• 00:34

  I've been on a short break on a holiday, so I'm delighted to be back with you.

• 00:39

  So here's the first sentence.

• 00:41

  The EU has said the agreement struck by Theresa May is the only deal possible.

• 00:51

  Second reading, the EU has said, the agreement struck by Theresa May is the only deal possible.

• 01:00

  Here we're using some political references to do with Brexit and the ongoing difficulties between Great Britain, the United Kingdom and the EU.

• 01:14

  And the important aspect here we're looking at reported, okay?

• 01:19

  So we can have direct speech where I say something directly and then reported speech when somebody else is saying what I had to say.

• 01:29

  Okay, so simple example would be, I will call you tomorrow, direct speech.

• 01:35

  Harry said that he would call me tomorrow would be reported speech.

• 01:41

  Okay?

• 01:41

  So here, as I said, we're using reported speech.

• 01:44

  And when we talk about portrait speech, we usually use the two verbs, either to say or to tell, and we have to use them in the right tense.

• 01:55

  So here we're using said, the EU has said.

• 01:59

  So here we're using present perfect the EU has said, and after to say, or in this case, has said, we usually follow something.

• 02:11

  Okay, so we.

• 02:12

  We say something.

• 02:13

  So the EU has said the agreement.

• 02:16

  The agreement is something the EU has said, the agreement struck by Teresa May.

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