... said, “ I’m watching the late night show.” Helen said the late night show A they were watching B you watched C she was watching D Helen is watching I Change into reported speech: (Statements: ... told them to tell them such a nonsense 3) Will and Tim said, “ We were very happy about the present.” Will and Tim said they very happy about the present A had been B been C were D were being ... to giving up smoke 2) He told them, “Don't tell me such a nonsense!” A He told them not to tell him such a nonsense B He told them to tell him such a nonsense C He told them not to tell them such...
... taking B took C occupy D taken There’s somebody walking behind us I think A we are following B we are being followed C we are followed D we are being following 10 We’re late The film by the ... planning B if she is planning C was she planning D if she was planning Nam wanted to know what time _ A the movie began C the movie begins B did the movie begin D does the movie begin Julia ... to the cinema with me tonight?" he said A He invited me to go to the cinema with him that night B He offered me to go to the cinema with him tonight C He asked me if I'd like to go to the cinema...
... ball inthe street “ Said the policeman to the boys = >The policeman told the boys that they mustn’t play ball inthe street d )The simple past inthe direct speech is not changed if the meaning ... ,”My mother died of cancer in 1985 “ =>Tom told me that his mother died of cancer in 1985 e)If the direct speech expresses a general truth ,the tenses of the verb can remain unchanged inthereported ... The next day (the following day / the day after ) • Yesterday -> the day before ( the previous day ) • Next week/month/year - >The next week/month/year (the following week/…) • Last night -> the...
... know which is the cup you used ?She asked her son Mrs.Baker said,”Tom! Why don’t you go to bed ?” The traveller asked,” How long does it take to get to Moscow by train?” I asked the garden,” ... that those flowers wouldn’t grow?” He asked,”Who will go to the cinema with me ?” 10.“Can you lend me your book ?” She told her friend THE END ...
... 5 The driver said,”Don’t get off the bus while it’s going” “Show me what you have in your hand ,”She told the boy “Stay where you are and don’t touch anything !” ordered the policeman ... are told or you ‘ll get into trouble,”He warned the man Jane said ,”Read my exercise, John ,and tell mr if it is correct ” 10.He told me,”Wait there until I come !” THE END ...
... Short answers Rewrite the sentences into reported sentences inthe past Look at the example e.g.: Have you done the homework? Yes, I have Sam asked Mary if she had done the homework and she said ... following Thursday I asked Greg if it was raining when my father gave him a lift (Grammar / Note 1/e) My neighbour asked me if I didn’t watch the late night film the day before / the previous day The ... Task - Make reported questions inthe past Now the receiver (Y) is given inthe direct sentence 1) Mum: “What did you with the broken plates, children?” ...
... would win the Nobel Prize They said to Sam they often went to the cinema on Fridays Mr Barns said to Mrs Johnson they were going to send her an email with the further details Eva said to her mother ... remains ‘our’ when ‘she’ will marry ‘me’) 9) Lily said to the girls that time the next /the following week she would be lying on the beach in Costa Rica 10) The teacher said to Phil he was reading ... been studying all day the day before / the previous day Tina said to Ben she had been washing his dirty clothes all morning 8) She said to me she would like to organize their / our wedding reception...
... us) about his parents REPORTEDSPEECH Tense Changes When Using ReportedSpeech Normally, the tense inreportedspeech is one tense back in time from the tense in direct speech: She said, "I am ... continuous Past perfect continuous They complained, "We have been waiting for hours" They complained that they had been waiting for hours Past continuous Past perfect continuous "We were living in ... Conditional continuous She said, "I'll be using the car next Friday" She said that she would be using the car next Friday NOTE: You not need to change the tense if the reporting verb is inthe present,...
... finding out the definitions of direct speech and indirect speechin English In general, the indirect statement is the statement shows the true meaning of the sentence (Direct Speech) again of ... direct speech, reportedspeech is used mainly in conversation and is concerned more with communicating the exact meaning than the exact words As such, thereported message may vary depending on the ... students make in using reported speech? What might be the causes leading to the errors? What recommendations could be made so as to avoid the errors in using reported speech? 1.5 Methods of The Study...
... in two speeches of Obama to explore the means of conveying modality and modal meanings expressed in two speeches -Synthetic : After analyzing the data, the author uses synthetic to find out the ... understanding and defining modality Many researchers are interested in studying modality One of the authors who are interested in defining modality is V Vinogradov According to V Vinogradov (1977), ... Justification of the Study which gives the reasons for choosing topic ; the Aims and Objectives of the Study saying the purposes that the thesis gets and the tendency for the thesis And what methods the author...
... COMMUNICATOR and In- car Dialogues The learnt policies in (Henderson et al., 2005) focussed on the C OMMUNICATOR system for flight-booking dialogues There we reported learning a promising initial policy ... OMMUNICATOR dialogues, but the issue arises of how we could transfer this policy to new domains – for example the in- car domain Inthe in- car scenarios the genre of “information seeking” is central ... interface between the learnt policies for C OMMUNICATOR and the in- car baseline system 5.2 Mapping between COMMUNICATOR and the In- car Domains There are main problems to be dealt with here: Intention...
... to the length of the sentence (3) Find the stressed word(s) inthe sentence (a) If the element inthe phonetic list is a phone and the value of the sentinel variable has not been exceeded, then ... meaning of the whole sentence is changed by the different intonation pattern, the actual words themselves retain the same meaning in both examples That is, there are ~ o levels of semantic information ... assign the present value of the head of the skeleton slope to the list being built up Then recurse down the phonetic list but net the slope, so as to assign the same value to the next element in the...
... they must prevent disclosure of anything other than the most routine information They have lost sight of the public nature of their role and the legitimate interest of the public inthe workings ... submissions to the inquiry into “A Certain Maritime Incident” (CMI), which investigated events behind a 2001 incident An Indonesian vessel was intercepted by the Australian navy in Australian ... delayed information feed 28 • The police maintained the issue was a legal one They said the Information Privacy Act (Vic) 2000 and the Health Records Act (Vic) 2001 prevented them giving the media...
... This was done by listening to the recordings while examining the corresponding system log If the recognizer's output did not correctly capture the task-related information inthe utterance, it was ... training and the remaining examples for testing An estimated error rate is obtained by averaging the error rate on the testing portion of the data from each of the 25 runs Features Used BASELINE REJECTION% ... ASR component Learning Experiments: The final input for learning is training data, i.e., a representation of a set of dialogues in terms of feature and class values In order to induce classification...
... verbs inthe direct speech will be changed into the corresponding past forms inthereportedspeech if the reporting verb is inthe past tense The changes are shown inthe following table Direct speech ... Rule If the reporting verb is inthe past tense, tenses of the verbs inthe direct speech will be changed into their corresponding past tenses inthereportedspeechThe changes are shown inthe ... REVIEW In this chapter, the theory of reportedspeech is presented including definition of reported speech, types of reportedspeech and changes of direct speech when turned into reported speech...
... here There now Then ago Before (earlier) today That day must Had to Needn't Didn't have to tonight That night tomorrow The next day The following day The day after yesterday The previous day, the ... Next week The following week, the week after Last week The previous week, the week before TRƯỜNG HỢP NGOẠI LỆ +Không cần đổi lời nói noặc kép thật hiển nhiên -He said: "The sun rises inthe East" ... thao nghĩa câu) +O+V( TO -inf)…………… -The teacher said: "Don't make noise !" -The teacher ordered us not to make noise EXERCISE: Put the following sentences into reportedspeech 1.He said: "I shall...