Tham khảo tài liệu 'understanding and using english grammar part 39', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | EXERCISE 19. Activity quoted speech. Chart 12-6 Directions Choose two of your classmates to have a brief conversation in front of the class and decide upon a topic for them what they did last night what they are doing right now sports music books etc. . Give them a few minutes to practice their conversation. Then while they are speaking take notes so that you can write their exact conversation. Use quoted speech in your written report. Be sure to start a new paragraph each time the speaker changes. EXERCISE 20. Activity quoted speech. Chart 12-6 Directions Write fables using quoted speech. 1. In fables animals have the power of speech. Discuss what is happening in the illustrations of the grasshopper and the ants. Then write a fable based on the illustrations. Use quoted speech in your fable. 2. Write a fable that is well known in your country. Use quoted speech. Noun Clauses 253 12-7 REPORTED SPEECH VERB FORMS IN NOUN CLAUSES QUOTED SPEECH REPORTED SPEECH a I watch TV every day. - She said she watched TV every day. b I am watchingTV. - She said she was watching TV. c I have watchedTV. - She said she had watched TV. d I watchedTV. - She said she had watchedTV. e I had watchedTV. She said she had watchedTV. f I will watch TV. - She said she would watch TV. g I am going to watchTV. She said she was going to watch TN. h I can watch TV. - She said she could watch TV. i I may watch TV. - She said she might watch TV. j I must watchTV. - She said she had to watch TV. k I have to watchTV. - She said she had to watchTV. Reported speech refers to using a noun clause to report what someone has said. No quotation marks are used. If the reporting verb the main verb of the sentence . said is simple past the verb in the noun clause will usually also be in a past form as in the examples. 1 I should watchTV. She said she should watch TV. I ought to watchTV. - She said she ought to watch YV. I might watchTV. - She said she might watch W. In 1 should ought to and might do not .
