Reported speech. Косвенная речь

Reported Speech Косвенная речь.

Reported Speech

• Косвенная речь служит для передачи чужой речи
• Личные и указательные местоимения заменяются в косвенной речи по смыслу, как и в русском языке.
• Если глагол, вводящий косвенную речь, стоит в настоящем времени, то форма глагола в косвенной речи не изменяется

Examples:

• Indirect Speech
• Indirect Speech

• He says that he is well today.
• She says she likes it there.
• She says her friend was travelling a lot.
• He says that he played football yesterday.

• Direct Speech

• He says, ‘I am well today.’
• She says, ‘I like it here ’
• She says, ‘My friend was travelling a lot’.
• He says, ‘ I played

football yesterday’.

Если глагол , вводящий косвенную речь, стоит в прошедшем времени , то происходят следующие изменения:

1. Present Simple → Past Simple

2. Present Progressive → Past Progressive

3. Present Perfect → Past Perfect

4. Present Perfect Past Perfect

Progressive → Progressive

5. Past Simple → Past Perfect

6. Past Progressive → Past Perfect

Progress

7. Past Perfect → Past Perfect

8. Future Simple → Future –in the-

Past

Examples:

Indirect Speech

Direct Speech

1. He said, ‘I get up at 7 o’clock.’

1.He said that he got up at 7 o’clock.

2. He said, ’I’ m reading a book.’

2. He said that he was reading a book.

3. He said, ‘ I have just come .’

3.He said he had come .

4. He said, ‘I have been waiting for you since 10 o’clock.’

4. He said that he had been waiting for me since 10 o’clock.’

Наречия времени и места

в косвенной речи изменяются

следующим образом:

Direct Speech

Indirect speech

1. today

1. that day

2. yesterday

2. the day before

3. the following day

3. tomorrow

4. two days before

4. two days ago

5. last week

5. the week before

6. next month

6. the following month

Examples

Direct Speech

Indirect speech

5. He said, ‘I played football yesterday’

5. He said that he had played football the day before.

6. He said, ‘I was playing football yesterday from 3 up to 4 o’clock’.

6 . He said he had been playing football the day before from 3 up to 4 o’clock.

7. He said, ‘We had finished our work by 4 o’clock.

7 . He said that they had finished their work by 4 o’clock.

8. He said that they would finish their work in the evening.

8. He said, ‘We will finish

our work in the evening’

Exercise 1 Change direct speech into indirect:

• 1. Charles said, ‘Ann has bought a new car.’
• 2. I thought, ‘He is going to give up smoking’
• 3. She promised, ‘I will do my homework’
• 4. Ann said, ‘I was playing the piano the whole day’

Exercise 2 Change direct speech into indirect:

• 5. Nick said, ‘I saw Jimmy at a party last week.’
• 6. Boris said, ‘I went to Moscow last week’
• 7. Masha said, ‘They learned the poem yesterday’
• 8. Our parents said, ‘You have never been to London. Let’s go there’

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