Косвенная речь в английском языке: Сборник тренировочных упражнений по практической грамматике. Малетина Д.Ю - 4 стр.

Here                          there                                                   Direct Speech                    Reported Speech
This                          that                                         Tom said to the boys, “Who has     Tom asked the boys who had
These                         those                                        tickets for “Hamlet?”              tickets for “Hamlet.”
Last night                    the other/previous night                     John: Why are you late, Mary?      John wanted to know why Mary
                                                                                                              was late.
Note: In the sentences like: I said, “I'll be here tomorrow.” (Я ска-
зал: «Я буду здесь завтра».) the adverbs here and tomorrow may
                                                                                  ♦ If a direct question to the subject contains the link verb to
stay unchanged if the statement is reported on the same day and at the
                                                                           be, the direct order of words is not always strictly observed:
same place: I said I would be here tomorrow. Notice that it is also
correct to change the adverbs according to the rule mentioned above: I
                                                                            ¾ John said, “Who is the boy?” John asked         who the boy was.
said I'd be there the following day.
                                                                                                                              who was the boy.
       ♦ If the statement consists of a few clauses referring to the
past, only the verb of the first clause is used in Past Perfect.

           Direct Speech                        Reported Speech             ¾ Robert said,        Robert asked Bob what his telephone number
 John: Tom has done all his              John said that Tom had done all      “What is your                        was.
 homework. He did it before go-          his homework. He did it before       telephone num-                       what was his telephone
 ing to the concert.                     going to the concert.                ber, Bob?”                           number.


             2. QUESTIONS IN REPORTED SPEECH                               In set expressions like “What's the time?”, “What's the matter?”,
                                                                           “What's the news!” inverted word order doesn't change in reported
        Word order in a reported question is the same as in a statement.
                                                                           speech.
       ♦ A reported general question is introduced by the conjunc-
tion if or whether (before which there is no comma!):
                                                                                  ♦ Reported questions are generally introduced by the follow-
                                                                           ing verbs and word combinations: to question; to inquire (more offi-
           Direct Speech                      Reported Speech
                                                                           cial than to “ask”); to want to know; I wonder; I'd like to know; Can
Robert: Does it often rain in your   Robert asked if it often rained in    you tell me and etc.
part of the country?                 their part of the country.
Helen: Have you seen this film       Helen wanted to know if Peter                          Short answers in reported speech
yet, Peter?                          had already seen that film.
                                                                                  Short answers are converted into reported speech by repeating
      ♦ A reported special question is introduced by the same ad-          of the auxiliary or modal verb that a direct short answer contains. An
verb or pronoun that introduces a direct question:                         auxiliary verb changes according to the rules of the sequence of
                                                                           tenses.


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