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DIRECT AND
INDIRECT SPEECH
Introduction
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Direct and Indirect Speech 9 ;1 4 / 7
1. Direct and Indirect Statements (4 :;)
2. Direct and Indirect Requests or Commands (42 )7-0)
3. Direct and Indirect Questions (4-+*)
4. Direct and Indirect Mixed Types (9 3*)
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Past Simple
Past Continuous
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Indirect
Past Simple
Past Continuous
Past Perfect
Past Perfect
Past Perfect Continuous
Future in the Past
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Indirect
that day
the day before
the previous day
the night before
the previous night
the previous week (year)
before
the next day
the following week (year)
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Direct : Do you know, LWhat is he doing?B
Indirect : Do you know what he is doing?B
Direct : I donMt remember, LHas he ever been to Europe?B
Indirect : I donMt remember whether (if) he has ever been to Europe.
Direct : Find out, LWhere did she go?B
Indirect : Find out, where she went.
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Direct : She said to me, <I lost my pencil.B <I canpt find it.B
Indirect : She told me that she had lost her pencil and that she couldnpt find it.
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1. Indirect Statement
subject
say , says
said
that subject + v
tell , tells object + that
told
object to
v (infinitive)
not to
3. Indirect question
subject
ask
asks
asked
if , whether question
words
where
why
when
what
which
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7. They tell us that _____________ .
a. they are quite well
b. they were quite well
c. I am quite well
d. I was quite well
8. His friend says that _____________ two years before.
a. he lived there
b. he has lived
c. he lives there
d. he had lived there
9. She told me that _____________ the next day.
a. it must be a lot of rain
b. it has a lot of rain
c. there was a lot of rain
d. there would be a lot of rain
10. They begged their father _____________ fifty baht.
a. give them
b. eat not too much
c. to give them
d. not to eat too much
11. The doctor told him _____________ .
a. to eat not too much
b. eat not too much
c. to eat too much not
d. not to eat too much
12. She told her daughter _____________ .
a. wait there till she returned
b. to wait there till she returned
c. to wait there till she returns
d. wait here till she re turned
Post W test
DIRECTION : Choose the correct answer for each item.
1. He asked the class which lessons they _____________ the next day.
a. will prepare
b. prepare
c. would prepare
d. have prepared
2. If was recommended that one way to prevent communism _____________ to improve the
standard of living among the Thai people
a. was
b. had
c. has
d. be
3. She exclaimed with surprise at _____________ .
a. how expensive things were
b. how were things expensive
c. how were expensive things
d. how things are expensive
4. The boy _____________ their teacher if they _____________ in the examination.
a. asknmight smoke
b. asknpermitted to smoke
c. askednpermitted to smoke
d. askednmight smoke
5. The secretary explained to them that here _____________ mistake and that the meeting
_____________ not take place.
a. has hadnwill
b. had beennwill
c. had beennwould
d. had hadnwill
6. <What was Dad saying at breakfast?B
<He was saying that Jim _____________ would soon.B
a. will have come
b. would come
c. has been coming
d. would have come
7. The manager _____________ that the profits the company _____________ during the past
ten years were low average.
a. had declarednhad received
b. has declarednhad received
c. declarednhad received
d. declaresnhad received
8. A : He seemed to enjoy talking with you.
B : Yes, He asked me _____________ .
a. what hobbies I had
b. I had what hobbies
c. that I had what hobbies
d. what hobbies did I have
9. She didnpt say how _____________ .
a. tall was the men
b. the man was tall
c. was the man tall
d. tall the man was
10. The weather report said that there _____________ a lot of rain the following week.
a. was
b. would be
c. had been
d. will be
11. He said he wad sorry he _____________ me so much trouble.
a. had given
b. gave
c. has given
d. was given
12. Tell me whether you _____________ hungry.
a. were
b. bad been
c. went
d. have been
13. I havenpt the least idea why she _____________ there the day beore.
a. had gone
b. would go
c. went
d. had gone
14. Could you tell me if your wife _____________ from Spain?
a. had returned
b. being returned
c. would return
d. has returned
15. Mr. Hill asked me where I _____________ the day before.
a. went
b. had gone
c. was going
d. would go
16. <Ipm late today.B
<She said that _____________B
a. she was late that day
b. I am late today
c. I was late today
d. she would not be late that day
17. <Donpt wait for meB
He told me _____________ .
a. you mustnpt wait for me
b. donpt wait for me
c. you shouldnpt wait for me
d. not to wait for him
18. <What time is it?B
Do you know _____________?
a. what time is it
b. what time it is
c. what it is time
d. what is the time
ADDITIONAL EXERCISE
In each of the following, which of the options a to d is the best reported form?
1. Sidney said, <I shall come tomorrow if I am not prevented.B
a. Sidney said that he will come the next day if he is not prevented.
b. Sidney said that he would come tomorrow if he were not prevented.
c. Sidney said that he would come the next day if he were not prevented.
d. Sidney said that he will come the next day if he was not prevented.
2. <I wouldnpt believe it if I were you, Susie,B said Helen.
a. Helen said I didnpt believe it if I were Susie.
b. Helen said she wouldnpt have believed it if I were Susie.
c. Helen said she wouldnpt have believed it if she was Susie.
d. Helen said she wouldnpt believed it if she were Susie.
3. Kathy said, <Betty will have completed the task by noon tomorrow.B
a. Kathy said that Betty would complete the task by noon tomorrow.
b. Kathy said that Betty would have complete the task by noon tomorrow.
c. Kathy said that Betty would have complete the task by noon the next day.
d. Kathy said that Betty and complete the task by noon the next day.
4. <Last year, I used to eat out in the restaurant near the school.B
a. John said that in the previous year he used to eat out in the restaurant near the school.
b. John said that last year he was used to eating out in the restaurant near the school.
c. John said that in the previous year he was used to eating out in the restaurant near the school.
d. John said that last year he would have eaten out in the restaurant near the school.
KEY TO EXERCISES
DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH
PRE-TEST
1. c
2. a
3. c
4. d
6. b
7. a
8. a
9. d
11. d
12. b
13. a
14. d
16. b
17. c
18. c
19. d
EXERCISE 1.
1. My aunt told to go and send off that parcel.
2. The cripple man begged the passers-by to pity him.
3. She told her friend not to stay there.
4. She told him to come and see her the following week.
5. He asked me to give him my dictionary.
6. The woman told her servant to bring her a cup of coffee.
7. The lady asked the guests not to smoke in that room.
8. His father warned him not to return home late that night.
9. The policeman told the driver to give him his licence.
10. The teacher told the students to leave that room them.
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EXERCISE 2.
1. The teacher asked her if she understood that lesson.
2. The little girl asked her father if she might go with him.
3. She asked him if he was leaving for Singapore.
4. Tawin asked Mali if she had finished cooking lunch.
5. Our aunt asked where we had hone the night before.
6. The shopkeeper asked them which book they wanted to buy.
7. My friend asked me why I didnpt come in time.
8. I want to know how well he speaks English.
9. Ask her if she lives on Sriayudthaya Road.
10. Do you know what subject they learn in that semester.
POST-TEST
1. c
6. b
11. a
16. a
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ADDITIONAL EXERCISE
1. c
2. d
6. c
7. d
11. b
12. c
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10. d
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