Indirect Speech

Sequence of Tenses.

III. Grammar Exercises

ì goes to the Crimea every summer.

1. I know that he í went to the Crimea last summer.

î will go to the Crimea next summer.

ìездит в Крым каждое лето.

Я знаю, что он íездил в Крым прошлым летом.

îпоедет в Крым следующим летом.

ì went to the Crimea every summer.

2. I knew that he í had gone to the Crimea last summer.

î would go to the Crimea next summer.

ìездит в Крым каждое лето.

Я знал,что он íездил в Крым прошлым летом.

îпоедет в Крым следующим летом.

6. Complete the following:

1. I hope your friend will come and see us on Sunday.

2. I hoped...

3. This statistician thinks he will get the latest data.

4. This statistician thought...

5. My friend is sure his profession is better than mine.

6. My friend was sure...

7. I think they televise international economic events.

8. I thought...

9. The manager believes that the work was done thoroughly.

10. The manager believed... and so he didn’t check it himself.

11. Mother was sure that her son made good progress at the institute.

12. Mother was sure... since the holiday.

13. We are afraid the firm won’t earn great profits.

14. We were afraid...

15. I am happy they call me up now and then.

16. I was happy...

7. Translate the following sentences paying attention to the Sequence of Tenses:

1. I asked Mr. Olegov where he lived.

2. He said that he lived in Moscow.

3. He told me that he worked at a large plant and described where the plant was.

4. I told him that I knew the plant because I had worked there for about two years.

5. I said that I didn’t work there any longer because I was studying at the Institute of Finance and Economics.

6. Mr. Olegov asked me if I knew the economists working at the plant.

7. I told him that I knew most of them.

8. He told me that the plant had greatly increased its production and was producing almost three times more goods than four years ago.

9. The other day the manager was asked if he would introduce the new machine constructed by one of the workers with the help of the engineers.

10. He answered that he would do it as soon as the tests were completed.

		Indefinite	Continuous	Perfect	Prefect Continuous
	Главное предло-жение	write пишет (вообще)	am writing пишет (сейчас)	have written написал (уже)	have been writing пишет (уже сей­час)	Present
		¯	¯	¯	¯
Past	He said (that)	wrote пишет	was writing писал (вчера в 7 часов)	had written написал вчера к 7 часам)	had been writing писал (вчера уже 3 часа, ко­гда...)	Past
		¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾® ¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾®
	Он ска­зал (что)	shall/will write напишет (завтра)	will be writing будет пи­сать (зав­тра в 7 часов)	will have written напишет (завтра к 7 ча­сам)	will have been writing будет пи­сать (зав­тра уже 3 часа, ко­гда...)	Future
		¯	¯	¯	¯
		would write	would be writing	would have written	would have been writing	Future-in-the-Past

При обращении прямой речи в косвенную происходит следующая замена наречий места, времени и указательных местоимений.

Direct Speech	Indirect Speech
now	сейчас	then	тогда
here	здесь	there	там
this, these	это, этот, эти	that/those	тот, то, те
today	сегодня	that day	в этот день
tomorrow	завтра	(the) next day, the following day	на следующий день
yesterday	вчера	the day before, the previous day	накануне
next week/year	на следующей неделе/на будущий год	the next week/ year	на следующей неделе/в следующем году
last week	на прошлой неделе	the previous week	за неделю до
last year	в прошлом году	the year before	за год до

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