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Ex 40 Study the following chart, compare the use of the tense forms in direct and reported speech.*
| Direct Speech | Reported Speech |
| 1. Mary said: "I've caught a cold." 2. "Have you seen him since he moved to Kiev?" Mary asked. 3. "Peter saw the film yesterday," Mary said to me. 4. "He lived in Leningrad from 1960 till 1965," she said.** 5. The dean asked them: "Will you have returned by the beginning of term?" | 1. Mary said that she had caught a cold. 2. Mary asked if I had seen him since he moved to Kiev. 3. Mary told me that Peter had seen the film the day before. 4. She said that he lived in Leningrad from 1960 till 1965. 5. The dean asked them if they would have returned by the beginning of term. |
Ex 41 Use Reported Speech.
1. "Have you travelled abroad much?" he asked. 2. "Who has written this note?" he asked the secretary. 3. "I've just received a post-card from Mother," my brother said to me. 4. "The students also took part in arranging the conference," the chairman said. 5. "Have you been here long?" the stranger asked me. 6. "Did you really see this happen with your own eyes?" the militiaman asked the boy. 7. "I hope they will have taken a decision by the end of the meeting," she remarked. 8. "Did you watch the detective film on TV yesterday?" he asked her. 9. "This story happened long ago," he said, "and few people remember anything about it." 10. "I haven't read so interesting a book since I don't remember when," she said.
Ex 42 Rewrite (or retell) in narrative form the passage from the text from ‘Where have you been?...’ up to ‘... But they are pictures just the same, aren't they?’.
The Article
with the nouns "school", "town", "table", "bed", "hospital", "train"
Ex 43 Study the chart.
| Kislovodsk isa town in the Caucasus.The town is a well-known resort. They stayedin town last summer. If yougo to town bring me today's newspapers. |
