ENGLISH 11

INDIRECT SPEECH

85. Indirect speech: statements.
Put the following into indirect speech
‘I have something to show you,’ I said to her.
‘Nothing grows in my garden. It never gets any sun,’ she said.
‘I’m going away tomorrow, mother,’ he said.
‘I have been in London for a month but so far I haven’t had time to visit the Tower,’ said Rupert.
‘It isn’t so foggy today as it was yesterday,’ I remarked.
‘The new underpass is being officially opened the day after tomorrow,’ said the BBC announcer.
‘We have moved into our new flat. We don’t like it nearly as much as our last one,’ said my aunt.
‘We have a lift but very often it doesn’t work,’ they said.
‘From one of the windows of my flat I can see the Eiffel Tower,’ he said.
‘I’ve no idea what the time is but I’ll dial 8081 and find out,’ said this daughter.
‘I’ll come with you as soon as I am ready,’ she replied.
He said, ’My wife has just been made a judge’.
‘I have a German lesson this afternoon and I haven’t done my home work yet,’ said the small boy.
‘If you let the iron get too hot you will scorch your clothes,’ I warned her.
‘You haven’t given me quite enough. The bill is for 14 dollar and you have paid me only 13 dollar,’ he pointed out.
Anna said,’ Englishmen make good husband because they are nearly away willing to help in the house.’
Mary answered, ‘I like men to be useful but I don’t like them to be too domesticated. I prefer them to keep out of the kitchen.’
Motoring report: ‘The new Roll Royce runs so quietly that all you can hear the ticking of the clock.’
Managing director of the Rolls Royce Company: In that case we’ll have to do
something about the clock.
‘I don’t know what to do with my plums. I suppose I’ll have to make jam. The trouble is that one of us eats jam,’ she said.
‘We like working on Sunday because we got double pay,’ explained the builders.
He said, ‘I’m quite a good cook and I do all my own washing and mending too’.
‘You can keep that one if you like, Joan.’ he said. ‘I’ve got plenty of others’.
‘I’m going fishing with mother this afternoon,’ said the small boy, ‘and we are going into the garden now to dig for worms’.
‘I know exactly what they said,’ the private detective explained to his client, ‘because I bugged their phone’.
‘You’ve got my umbrella,’ I said crossly. ‘Yours is in your bedroom.’
‘I’ll sit up till she comes in, but I hope she won’t be late.’ He said.
‘If you give me some wire, I’ll hang that picture for you,’ said my cousin.
‘I have a Turkish bath occasionally, but it doesn’t seem to make any difference to my weight,’ she said.
‘This is quite a good model, madam. I use one of these myself,’ said the salesman.
‘My new house is supposed to be haunted, but so far I haven’t seen any ghosts,’ she said.
The advertisement said, ‘If you answer the question correctly you may win 100 $.’
‘If I press my ear against the wall, I can hear what the people in the next flat are saying,’ he said.

86. Indirect speed: statements
Put the following into indirect speech, being careful to avoid ambiguity:
‘I couldn’t get into the house because I had lost my key, so I had to break the window,’ he said.
‘The mirror is there so that you can see yourself when you are dancing,’ the instructress told him.
‘I wrote to him the day before yesterday. I wonder why he hasn’t rung up,’ she said.
‘If the ground is dry on the day of the race, my horse might win,’ said the own.
‘You’d better slow down. There’s a speed limit here,’ she said to me. (use advise )
‘If Tom wants seats, he’d better apply early,’ she said.
‘We walked 50 miles last night to see the Minister and protest about our rents being raised. He was very polite and promise to do what he could for us,’ said one of the tenants.
‘They should put traffic light here, otherwise there’ll be more accidents,’ she said.
‘It’s time we began training for our next match,’ the coach said to them.
‘If you leave home at six, you should be