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Indirect speech
Revision
1.“We are going to Mexico next Sunday” said Tom.
Tom said that they were going to Mexico the next Sunday.
2. “Are you good at English?” Lucy asked me.
Lucy asked me whether/if I was good at English.
3. My mother asked me “Why are you here?”
My mother asked me why I was there.
4. “Jack, don’t open the window” said the teacher.
The teacher told Jack not to open the window.
Requests and Commands
Direct speech
Requests:
Commands:
Do ... , please.
Can you... ?
Could you ... ?
Will you ... ?
Would you ... ?
Do ...
Don’t ...
Indirect speech
Requests: A asked B to do sth.
A asked B not to do sth.
Commands: A told/ordered B to do sth.
A told/ordered B not to do sth.
Some other verbs to use: suggest, warn, beg, remind
Practice
1.He said to Tom, “Don’t do the work any more.”
He told Tom not to do the work any more.
2.Mrs. Green said, “Please sing us a song, Miss
White.”
Mrs. Green asked Miss White to sing them a
song.
3. “Be quiet, children.” said Mrs. Wilson.
Mrs. Wilson told the children to be quiet.
3 Read these sentences and decide which is a command
and which is a request. Then retell them in indirect
speech.
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teacher:
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childrensaid
asked
their
teacher
to
you
sing
song for us?” R
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a song
fora them.
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her child
child: to
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the
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mothersaid
toldtoher
turnoffoff
radio!”
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to a his/her
patient: patient
“Open your
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dentistsaid
asked
to
mouth
please, so
I can so
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the bad
tooth
open his/her
mouth
he/she
clearly.”
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woman
on the
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asked
the
woman
on the
phone:
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to holdyou
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for aon
minute
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his student:
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teachersaid
told
student
to up
to
my office!
come
up to ”his/her
office
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