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.