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Grammar and Usage

南京五中

方玉勇 黄祖明

Lead-in

T: What did you eat this morning?

S1: ‘I ate ….’

T：What did S1 say, S2?

S2: S1 said he/she ate….

direct speech

reported speech

We use direct speech to report what exactly has been said. If we write the speech down, the words will usually appear in quotation marks.

1 Which one is direct speech and which one is reported speech?

He said, ‘I will go to school tomorrow.’

She told us something secret.

2 Change the direct speech into reported speech.

She said, ‘This film is quite interesting.’

‘Finish the project tomorrow.’ he said to me.

(direct speech)

(reported speech)

She said that that film was quite interesting.

He asked me to finish the project the next day.

(Change what has been said to an object clause or

an infinitive phrase.)

What should we pay attention to?

1 personal pronouns and tense

e.g 1 Miss Yang said, ‘ I will buy a new dress.’

Miss Yang said that she would buy a new dress.

Ex. Simon said, ‘ I wrote a letter.’

How to change the tense? Have a look.

Simon said that he had written a letter.

Practice: Change the following sentences into reported speech.

1 ‘I haven’t brought my dictionary,’ the student said.

2 Tom said to them, ‘ I will get excited.’

3 My father said to me, ‘I am reading the book.’

The student said that he hadn’t brought his dictionary.

Tom told them that he would get excited.

My father told me that he was reading the book.

What should we pay attention to?

1 personal pronouns and tense

2 adverbials of time and place

e.g: He said, ‘I lost a key here yesterday.’

He said that he had lost a key there the day

before/the previous day.

Ex. ‘I read the book here a week ago.’Jane said to

him.

Jane told him that she had read the book there

a week before.

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Practice: Change the following sentences  into reported speech.

1 ‘I will come and see you again this evening, Tom.’ he said.

2 ‘I will come here again today,’ she said.

3 The doctor said to the patient, ‘You will have to wait till 3 pm tomorrow.’

He told Tom that he would go and see him again

that evening.

She said that she’d go there again that day.

The1 doctor told the patient that he would have to

wait till 3 pm the next day.

What should we pay attention to?

1 personal pronouns and tense

2 adverbials of time and place

3 other cases

Ex: Page 9

Possible answers:

(1) was (2) wouldn’t (3) had read

(4)that (5)would (6) had bought

(7) that (8) would (9) those

(10) Her (11) was

(12) was going to read

How to use reported speech to report:

statements

questions

imperative sentences

Statements:

*We use noun clauses introduced by that to report statements.

She said, ‘Ads are an important part of our lives.’

She said that ads are an important part of our lives.

‘There are two main types of ads,’ the writer said to us.

The writer told us that there are two main types of ads.

*More reporting words:

‘PSAs are often placed for free,’ the writer said.

The writer explained that PSAs are often placed for free.

advise agree explain insist promise remind suggest warn

Can you give more examples?

Practice: Change the following sentences  into direct speech.

1 Tom suggested that we should translate the book into English.

2 The student explained that he really didn’t know he had to finish the work a week before.

3 The teacher promised that he would give his students a few holidays at the end of that month.

Tom said, ‘You’d better translate the book into English.’

The student said, ‘ I really don’t know I must finish the work a week ago.’

The teacher said, ‘I will give my students a few holidays at the end of this month.’

Questions:

*We use noun clauses introduced by whether/if to report yes/no-questions.

‘Are all ads playing tricks on us?’I asked her.

I asked her whether/if all ads were playing tricks on us.

*We use noun clauses introduced by wh-words to report wh-questions.

I asked her, ‘How can that be true?’

I asked her how that could be true.

“Where did you find the ads for jobs abroad?’Bill asked.

Bill asked where I had found the ads for jobs abroad.

Practice: Change the following sentences  into reported speech.

1 My mother asked me, ‘Do you want to go to the Great Wall with me?’

2 The teacher asked the boy, ‘How many pages have you read today?’

3 I asked Li Ying, ‘ Where and when were you born?’

My mother asked me whether I wanted to go to the

Great Wall with her.

The teacher asked the boy how many pages he had

read that day.

I asked Li Ying where and when he was born.

Imperative sentences:

*To report imperative sentences, we use the structure: reporting verb+object+(not)+to-infinitive.

‘Don’t worry,Mickey,’ Jen said.

Jen asked Mickey not to worry.

*other verbs can be used in this structure

‘Don’t believe every ad you read,’ Lily said to me.

Lily advised me not to believe every ad I read.

reporting verb

object

(not)

to-infinitive

advise encourage invite remind warn

Let’s do some Ex for consolidation!You can do it well!

Practice: Change the following sentences  into direct speech.

1 The teacher reminded me not to forget to learn the dialogue by heart.

2 My brother ordered me to go there at once.

3 My father warned us not to throw the waste paper everywhere.

The teacher said to me, ‘Don’t forget to learn the

dialogue by heart.’

My brother said, ‘ Come here at once.’

My father said to us, ‘Don’t throw the waste paper

everywhere.’

Ex. Page 11

A:

2 asked in what way it was different from other English learning software.

3 asked how it could help him remember English words.

4 Asked whether/if it taught listening and speaking.

5 asked what the designer would do if she was not satisfied with the software.

6 asked if it was user-friendly.

Ex. Page 11

B:

2 advises us to use interesting and attractive photos.

3 advises us to use colour to attract people’s attention.

4 advises us to use eye-catching headings to attract people’s attention.

5 advises us to make the text short and easy to read.

6 advises us to study some good advertisements on the Internet for ideas.

Homework

1 Finish Ex on Page 92.

2 Make good preparation for Task part.

Thanks!

Bye-bye!