Grammar: Непряма мова: спеціальні питальні речення

При відтворенні непрямою мовою спеціальних запитань питальні слова (займенники і прислівники) стають сполучними словами, і також діє правило узгодження часів:

‘Where does Ann live?’ asked he. – He asked where Ann lived.

‘Why do you think you know him?’ she asked me. – She asked me why I thought I knew him.

‘What are you doing, Josh?’ asked Bill. – Bill asked Josh what he was doing.

‘Why didn't you come?’ he said to me. - He asked me why I hadn’t come.

‘Where have you been?’ she asked him. - She asked him where he had been.

‘Who called you today?’ she asked. – She wondered who had called me that day.

She asked, ‘When will you decorate the room?’ - She asked when I would decorate the room.

‘Where were they yesterday?’ said Dan. – Dan asked where they had been the day before.

1 Report these special questions

1. He asked me, ‘Where do you usually spend your summer holidays?’ 2. I said to Nick, ‘Where are you going?’ 3. Ann asked Mike, ‘Where does your sister live?’ 4. Mary said to me, ‘Who has brought this letter?’ 5. She said to Mark, ‘When will you come back?’ 6. David asked me, ‘How can I get to the railway station?’ 7. Mary asked Tom, ‘What time will you come tomorrow?’ 8. She asked me, ‘Why didn't you buy this book yesterday?’ 9. I said to him, ‘How long did you stay there?’ 10. I asked Mary, ‘How long will it take you to get there?’ 11. Pete asked Jenny, ‘When are you leaving Kyiv?’ 12. Nellie asked me, ‘How long has he known Martin?’ 15. I asked her, ‘Jenny, where is it?’

2 Report these special questions

1. Mary asked, ‘What’s he doing?’ 2. I asked Sally, ‘When did you hurt your leg?’ 3. Peter said, ‘Alice, when did you go to Lviv?’ 4. She said, ‘Oleg, why didn't you buy this book?’ 5. My friend asked, ‘How do you get to college?’ 6. Mary asked me, ‘When will you phone me?’ 7. My mom asked me, ‘Where have you put my mobile phone?’ 8. She asked, ‘When did you translate this article?’ 9. They said to him, ‘Mike, which school did you go to?’ 10. Ann asked, ‘What time does the lesson begin?’ 12. Rick said, ‘Why have you cut your hair, Liz?’ 13. Bob said, ‘Why are you so angry, Paul?’

3 Report these special questions

1. She said, ‘What time can you come and see me today?’ 2. The girl asked, ‘How much does this dress cost?’ 3. Mary asked me, ‘What will the weather be like tomorrow?’ 4. He asked, ‘When does my favourite TV programme start?’ 5. ‘Why haven’t they come yet?’ said Eva. 6. ‘Where did you spend your weekend, Mary?’ said Alice. 7. She asked me, ‘When will we go to the theatre?’ 8. ‘Where are your books, Betsy?’ said her mother. 9. ‘Why don’t you like this film, Ann?’ asked her mother. 10. He said to me, ‘How are you today?’ 11. ‘When did you see your friend?’ Mary asked Johnny. 12. Robert said, ‘What time do you come back from work, John?’

4 Transform these reported special questions into Direct Speech

1. She asked me what juice I liked. 2. Peter asked me when he could borrow my car. 3. They wanted to know where I was going. 4. We wanted to know when he would tell us the news. 5. I asked her where her sister was. 6. He asked Peter what progress he had achieved the previous year. 7. Jane asked Mike how long he was going to stay there. 8. Mary asked me why I was singing. 9. Alice asked her brother whom he was waiting for. 10. He asked me whose car it was. 11. I wanted to know where she had worked the previous year. 12. I asked him why he was tired.

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