Reported Speech with Conditional Sentences I.. How to make a reported speech with conditional sentences: 1.. Deleting quotation mark “…” and colon : Ex: Direct: He said: “If it rains, I
Trang 1Reported Speech with Conditional Sentences
I Definition:
It refers to using a noun clause to repeat what someone has said
II How to make a reported speech with conditional sentences:
1 Deleting quotation mark (“…”) and colon (:)
Ex: Direct: He said: “If it rains, I will stay at home”
Indirect: He said that if it rained, he will stay at home
2 Changing the pronoun
t
t
Indirect
Personal Pronoun
Subject Chủ ngữ I We He, she They Phẩm định My Our His, herTheir
Possessive
pronoun
Object Tân ngữ MeUs Him, herThem Định danh Mines His, hers Ours Theirs
3 Changing the tense of verbs
Example:
1 He said: “If it rains, I will stay at home”
He said that if it rained, he would stay at home
2 She said: “if I were a bird, I would be a dove”
She said that if she were a bird, she would be a dove
3 Mary said to him: “if you had followed my advice, you could have been the winner”
Mary said to him that if he had followed her advice, he could have been the winner
* Note:
Conditional type 1: we apply all the necessary changes as usual (change of verb tenses, pronouns, adverbs of time & place)
Conditional type 2 & 3: we do not change of verb tenses but we follow the rules to change pronouns, adverbs of time & place
4 Changing the time and the place
now
2 days ago
today
tonight
tomorrow
yesterday
then
2 days before
that day that night the next day / the following day the day before
next week
last year here this these
the following week
the year before/ the previous year
there that those
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Trang 2Exercise 1: Change the following conditional sentences into reported speech
1 “If I had a permit, I could get a job”
He said that
2 “If I had dropped this vase, it would have broken”
Her father said to him
3 “If you have to do the washing up, I will help you”
Her husband said to her
4 “I would run away if I saw a spider”
The girl said
5 “We’d have given you a lift if you hadn’t had your motorbike with you”
My friend said to me
6 “If you had listened to me, the accident wouldn’t have happened”
My farther said to me
7 “If we don’t get these tickets for the concert, we’ll stayed at home”
They said to me
8 “We’d go by bus if we didn’t have a car”
My friends said to me
9 “You wouldn’t have taken the bread if you hadn’t been hungry”
Her sister said to him
Exercise 2: Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form Add “will (‘ll) or would (‘d)” if necessary
1 If someone (walk) _ in here with a gun, I’d be very frightened
2 I’m sure he (understand) _ if you explain the situation to her
3 He always (complain) _ if I’m late
4 If he spoke more clearly, we (understand) _ him
5 If you ask _ me, I would explain it to you
Exercise 3: Rewrite these sentences, using conditional type 3
1 He didn’t listen to his parents He failed at the exam
If
2 The thief left his gloves at the scene He was arrested
If
3 They did not arrive in time They didn’t see the ceremony
If
4 She walked to this meeting She was late
If
5 The woman did not say what she wanted I put the phone down
If
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