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viernes, 30 de mayo de 2014

REPORTED SPEECH

You can practice REPORTED SPEECH for a while on this web, and this one , and this too.


more to practice.

* Reporting Verbs and structures


Test Your Knowledge of Reported Speech:
Once you've studied the rules - or if you already know the rules - test your knowledge:

Reported Speech Quiz



Reporting Verbs Exercise at Auto-English

Fill the gaps using the verbs in the box. Use each verb once only.
advise
hope
promise
suggest
beg
insist
remind
threaten
deny
invite
refuse
warn

1
"I didn't do it," she said.

She ________________ doing it.
2
"Have lunch with me," she said.

She ________________ me to have lunch with her.
3
"Why don't you buy one?" said Tom.

Tom ________________ I buy one.
4
"I promise I'll take you to Prague," said Mary.

Mary ________________ to take me to Prague.
5
"I hope Andy phones tonight," said Clare.

Clare ________________ Andy would phone that night.
6
"Please, please don't tell anyone!" he said.

He ________________ me not to tell anyone.
7
"I won't do it," he said.

He ________________ to do it.
8
"You should have lessons," she said.

She ________________ me to have lessons.
9
"We really must go with you," they said.

They ________________ on going with me.
10
"Don't forget to phone Granny," said Mum.

Mum ________________ me to phone Granny.
11
"If you wear my T-shirt again, I'll pinch you very hard," said Maggy.

Maggie ________________ to pinch me very hard if I wore her T-shirt again.
12
"Don't fly kites near electric overhead cables," said my father.

My father ________________ me not to fly kites near electric overhead cables.

jueves, 8 de mayo de 2014

Passives

When to use the passive
To change the focus of a sentence.
In the passive sentence above, we can make the object and action ('me' and 'gave a prescription') more important than the subject ('the doctor').
If we don't know who does an action.
"My bicycle has been stolen" – I don't know who has stolen it.
If we don't want to say who did something.
"The lights were left on all night." (I don't want to say that you left the lights on.)
If it is obvious who does something.
"I was given a prescription" – I know that only doctors give prescriptions, so I don't need to add "by the doctor".
"He was arrested" I know that the police arrest people, so I don't need to add "by the police".



Forming a passive sentence in English


Firstly, you need to make the object into the new subject.

me –> I
you –> You
him / her –> He / She
us –> We
them –> They

Then you make the verb passive.
Put the verb "to be" into the same tense as the verb in the active subject. For example "gave" is the past simple tense. The past simple form of "to be" is "was" or "were".


Present simple –> is /are
Present continuous –> is / are being
Present perfect –> has/have been

Past Simple -> was / were
Past continuous – was / were being
Modals will, can etc – will be, can be etc.

Then add the past participle of the verb. For example "gave" – "was GIVEN".



http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/passiv.htm

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive

http://baladre.info/english/sedaviwebfront/passivetheory.htm

http://www.xtec.cat/~ogodoy/sac/rephrasing/rephrexercises.htm



Other Grammar exercises

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/alle_grammar.htm

Gerundios/Infinitivos http://thatsoriano.blogspot.es/img/gerundio.jpg

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