Reported speech Spotlight 8

Grammar in Use Spotlight 8

Reported speech

Кочеткова Ирина Ивановна, учитель английского языка

МАОУ Видновская СОШ №11

He says to Lena, “I see my friends every day.”

He says to Lena that he sees his friends every day.

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Reported Speech

Time expressions

Direct speech

now

Reported speech

then

today

that day

here

there

yesterday

the day before

ago

before

last…

tomorrow

the previous …

the next day

next …

the following …

this

that

these

those

the day after tomorrow

two days later

the day before yesterday

two days before

Утверждения переводятся в косвенную речь следующим образом:

S 1 said/said to S 2 /told S 2 that подлежащее + сказуемое

Союз that можно не употреблять.

“ I enjoy swimming,” Louisa said.

Louisa said ( that) she enjoyed swimming.

Louisa said to us ( that) she enjoyed swimming.

Louisa told us ( that) she enjoyed swimming.

S 1 said/said to S 2 /told S 2 that S V.

1 ) Tom said, “I’m awfully tired”.

that

he

was

Tom said awfully tired.

2)I said to Mary, “I’ll be in London tomorrow”.

I

I said to Mary

that

would be in London

the next day.

3)Jim said, “I haven’t seen Alice today”.

that day.

Jim said that

hadn’t seen Alice

he

4)Ann said to Tom, “I didn’t know this girl”.

Ann told Tom that

she

hadn’t known

that girl.

Reported questions

1) Вопросы в косвенной речи обычно образуются при помощи глагола ASK.

“ How do you know this?”

She asked me how I knew that.

2) Если вопрос в прямой речи начинается с вопросительного слова (who, where, how, when, what etc), вопрос в косвенной речи начинается с ТОГО ЖЕ вопросительного слова.

«Where do you live?»

She asked me where I lived.

Если вопрос в прямой речи НЕ ИМЕЕТ вопросительного слова, то вопрос в косвенной речи образуется при помощи IF/WHETHER

“ Did you know this?”

She asked me if / whether I had known that.

3) В вопросах в косвенной речи порядок слов как в утверждении (Подлежащее + Сказуемое)

2 1

1 2

“ Have you seen Ann today?

She asked him if he had seen Ann that day.

p.95, ex. 6 b