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Indirect questions

Special questions:

He asked (me) …

He wanted to know

He wondered …

What are you doing?” what I was doing.

Where do you live?” where I lived.

What is Nick doing?” what Nick was doing.

What have you prepared for today?” what I had prepared.

When did you come home yesterday?” when I had come home.

When will your mother come home?” when my mother would come

home.

General questions:

He asked (me) …

He wanted to know …

He wondered …

Are you watching TV?” if I was watching TV

Do you play chess?” whether I played chess

Have you done your homework?” I had done my homework.

Did you skate last winter?” if I had skated the winter before.

Will you see your friend tomorrow?” whether I should see my friend the next day.

Indirect commands:

Keep quiet! Don’t make noise!

He told me to keep quiet and not to make noise.

(He asked me)

Exercises:

  1. Translate the following sentences into Russian.

  1. We found that she left home at eight o’clock every morning. 2. I didn’t know that my friend’s son had failed in chemistry. 3. They thought I could drive a car. 4. I knew he was experimenting steadily for hours. 5. We considered that she had already obtained her Master’s degree in mathematics. 6. The student said that he could not translate the article without a dictionary. 7. I did not think that she would be refused a better room for her research. 8. He asks if he may keep this book as long as he needs it. 9. He asked how normal temperature was maintained in the underground. 10. He asked whether in the early days the trains had been driven by locomotives which burnt coal.

  1. Rewrite the following sentences using Past-tense forms.

1. He says he has spent a fortnight in the Caucasus.

2. He says it did him a lot of good.

3. He says he feels better now.

4. He says they did a lot of sightseeing.

5. He says he will come to see us next Sunday.

  1. Open the brackets using the verbs in the correct tense forms.

  1. He said he (to leave) tomorrow morning.

  2. She says she already (to find) the book.

  3. She said she (can) not tell me the right time, her watch (to be) wrong.

  4. I asked my neighbour if he ever (to travel) by air before.

  5. He says that he (to know) the laws of the country.

  6. He asked me whether I (to remember) the legend about a faithful lion.

  7. The delegates were told that the guide just (to go) out and (to be) back in ten minutes.

  8. I suppose they (to send) a dog after the burglar immediately.