Ex.2. Rewrite these sentences, changing the reported speech to direct speech

Ex.1. Rewrite these sentences, changing the direct speech to reported speech.

Ex.2. Choose the correct variant.

1. the salary of an Accounts Manager (fixed/variable costs)

2. rent and heating (fixed/variable costs)

3. running a business (direct/overhead costs)

4. materials used in making some goods (indirect/variable costs)

Ex.3. Sum up what you remember about:

s costs

s assets

s liabilities

Grammar Revision

Reported Questions. Requests. Orders. When you report a question, you use the same word order as in the statement. You make the same tense and other changes as you do for reported statements: s Wh questions: “Where is Mary, Tom?” She asked Tom where Mary was. s Yes/No questions: “Are you going with us, Tom?” – She asked if/whether Tom was going with them. s Requests “Would you pass the book please, Tom? She asked Tom if he would pass her the book. She asked Tom to pass her the book. s Orders: “Go to bed!” – Mary’s mother told her to go to bed.

1. “Who has just dropped a $ 10 note?” I asked.

2. “What happened to your partner?” asked one of the men.

3. “Why do the prices go up so often?” she wondered.

4. “Have you got a work permit?” Ann wanted to know.

5. “Are you interested in advertising?” asked Mary.

6. “Would you like to join our company?” she said.

7. “Are you leaving today or tomorrow morning?” asked his secretary.

8. “Don’t watch late-night horror movies”, I warned them

9. “Read the contract before you sign it,” he said to his client.

10. “Buy a new car,” I advised him.

11. “Don’t drive so fast,” she begged him.

12. “Don’t wait till tomorrow,” said the advertisement.

13. “Could you translate this for me, please?” I asked the agent.

14. “Could I have the weekend off?” she asked her boss.

15. “Would you mind paying cash?” said the salesgirl when he took out his cheque-book.

16. “Why don’t you trust her?” I asked Mary.

1. She said that her corporation had become bankrupt and its stock was of no value anymore.

2. I asked her if she’d like to take my pen but she thanked me.

3. He wanted to know if I was going to calculate the indirect costs.

4. My employer hoped I would not be offended if he told me that I would do better in some other kind of job.

5. He asked me how long it had taken me to complete the job.

6. I wondered whether he had bought a guidebook to London.

7. He asked what we were discussing.

8. I wondered if they would solve that problem at the meeting.

9. He asked the manager to accept his resignation.

10. She asked me when I would be in Kyiv.

11. The court ordered the company to pay all their debts before 1 September.

12. He wanted to know when the new training program would be presented.

13. She wondered where we had held the conference the previous year.

14. Helen asked Tom if he had got a car.

15. He promised her that if she attended the conference the following week, she would hear his new theory about classification of the costs.

16. He couldn’t understand how I managed on my salary.

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