Year 10 · Language · Lesson 22
sagord
Reporting Speech — Report what another person said.
Grammar point
Reported clauses keep their own particle and are introduced by at.
Vocabulary
at
/at/
that (complementiser)
tal
/taːl/
to speak
spurn
/spurn/
to ask
svar
/svaːr/
to answer
ord
/ord/
word
sann
/sanː/
true
Examples
ven tal-en at an kal-en þar sag.
They said that I had worked.
an spurn-en, ven svar-en ne þar.
I asked; they answered no.
Drills
- Report six conversations.
- Distinguish þar, sag and vag in each.