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The document provides examples and exercises for direct and indirect speech. It includes examples of changing statements between direct and indirect speech, as well as changing imperative and interrogative sentences. The exercises cover topics like changing the tense and pronouns when converting between direct and indirect speech.

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Appendix 3 Clvii

The document provides examples and exercises for direct and indirect speech. It includes examples of changing statements between direct and indirect speech, as well as changing imperative and interrogative sentences. The exercises cover topics like changing the tense and pronouns when converting between direct and indirect speech.

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APPENDIX 3

Direct and Indirect Speech

I.Complete the sentences with SAID or TOLD.

1.Ann told me that she was hungry.


2. Ann said that she was hungry.
3. Jack ___________that I had a message.
4. Jack ___________me that I had a message.
5. My neighbour and I had a disagreement.I __________my neighbour that he was
wrong.
6. My neighbour __________me that I was wrong.
7. Ellen _________she enjoyed the movie last night.
8. When the storm began, I _______the children to come into the house.

II.Turn the following statesment into the Indirect Speech.

1. “I am meeting David for dinner” Tom said.


Tom said (that) he _was meeting David for dinner.
2. Mr. Davis said, “I have studied in Cairo.”
Mr. Davis said (that) he ___________________in Cairo.
3. Bill said, “I forgot to pay my electric bill.”
Bill said (that) he __________________to pay his electric bill.
4. Jerry said to me, “I can teach you to drive.”
Jerry said (that) he ________________me to drive.
5. Ed said, “I want a CD player.”
Ed said (that) he ___________a CD player.
6. I said ,”I will carry the box up the stairs.”
I said (that) I _____________the box up the stairs.

III. Rewrite each sentence in Indirect Speech ,beginning as shown.

1. “Are you staying here all summer?” the little girl asker me
The little girl asker me if I was staying there all summer.
2. “Did you remember to look the door?”, my father asked me.
3.
My father asked me ____________________
3. “Do you speak Italian?” the tourist guide asked me.
The tourist guide asked me.__________________
4. “Have you seen his family?” Jane wanted to know.
Jane wanted to know ____________
5. “Can you translate this poem?” the teacher asked Laura.
The teacher asked Laura ___________________
IV.Turn the following special questions into Indirect Speech:

1. “What will you say to her now?” Doris asked me.


2. “Where are your friends going now? I asked Helen.
3. “How many brothers have you?” Mary asked me.
4. “When did you find the results?”my boy friend wanted to know.
5. “Why don’t you say anything?”the policeman asked the boy.

V. Turn the following imperative sentences into the Indirect Speech:

1.”Go to the baker’s and buy some bread,”mother told my sister.


2. “Repeat the last word,”Tom asked me.
3. “ Turn the light off,”father told the children.
4. “Don’t drive faster than the speed limit,” Alex said to her friend.
5. “Don’t ring me up at 5 o’clock in the morning,”I asked my mother.
6. “Don’t tell them anything about this,”I advised Mary.

VI. . Turn into Direct Speech:


1. George told us that he had finished
“I have finished,”George told us
2. Alice asked her friend what she was doing there so early.
3. Ann told Paul that she would pay him a visit the next day.
4. He asked me if I remembered Jack.
5. She asked me if I had seen the new theatre.
6. She told me that she thought that she had heard me speaking on the radio a month
before.

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