Bria TS #10

            During this session, my tutee wanted to work on reported speech, such as he said/she said. I did know understand what exactly my tutee meant by he said/she said until he showed me some examples from his textbook, such as “He said that he had rented a movie last night” and “He said, ‘I rented a movie last night.’” From this, I learned that it is easier to tutor someone when they have the exact sentences and examples that they used in their class. Furthermore, my tutee wanted to know which sentence would be better for writing and which sentence would be better for speech. I explained to him that “He said that he had rented a movie last night” would be better for speech because a person cannot use quote marks when they speak in order to show what is being quoted. I also explained to him that “He said, ‘I rented a movie last night’” would be better for writing because a person can see the quotation mark and see what is being quoted. It is also easier to write because the quoted sentence does not have to change because it is a direct quote. All in all, it was a good tutoring session.