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Техника речи 1.

1. He said he had been ill the day before.

2. He said it was hot there.

3. He said he didn’t know what to say.

4. He said he was working very hard then.

5. He said he had been waiting for me since morning.

6. He said the dog had stolen meat.

7. He said he had done it the previous week.

8. He said he would do it better.

9. I invited him to go fishing at 6 o'clock in the morning but he said he would be sleeping that time.

10. He said he thought it would have stopped raining by the next morning.

11. She said that she would have been doing this work for 2 hours before I came.

12. He said you were running across the road when he saw you.

13. He said Einstein was born in 1779, but he made a mistake: Einstein was born in 1879.

14. Fancy that! He said he had forgotten everything he knew.

15. He told me he had forgotten everything he knew.

16. He asked me if I knew the way to the railway-station.

17. He asked me where I lived.

18. He said her parents were well.

19. She said she was going to learn to drive.

20. She said her brother had given up a job.

21. She said she couldn’t come to the party on Friday.

22. She said she wanted to go for a holiday but she didn’t know where to go.

23. She said she was going away for a few days and she would phone me when she came back.

24. He informed that they were going to get married the next month.

25. She said she had seen/she saw her ex-husband at the party and he was looking gloomy.

26. I thought you said that restaurant was cheap.

27. I thought you said that she wouldn’t come to see us.

28. I thought she said that she didn’t like her job.

29. I thought you said that you didn’t know English at all.

30. I thought you said that you had never eaten snails.

31. She asked me how old I was.

32. She wondered if I knew any foreign language.

33. She tried to find out how I was feeling.

34. She asked me where I had been.

35. She wondered when I had come back.

36. She asked me what I was doing.

37. She asked me where I lived.

38. She wondered why I had come back.

39. She asked me if I was glad to being back home.

40. She asked me if I could lend her some money.

41. She wondered if I had any plans for the future.

42. He asked me if there was a bank near there.

43. She informed she had no idea who had committed that insolent robbery.

44. You knew that she hadn’t got my letter.

45. You wondered when he had come back.

46. You found out what that word meant.

47. He had no idea if it was a long way from there to the airport.

48. He didn’t wonder if I was married.

49. He asked me why we met so seldom.

50. He asked me when I would get free after work.

Техника речи 2.

1. I’m hungry. She says she is hungry. She said she was hungry. She has just said she is hungry. She said she had been hungry before she went to work. She said she had been hungry since morning. She

asked me if I was hungry. She asked me why I was hungry. She wondered if I had been hungry

before I sat down to the table.

2. He is deep in the hole and he has no money to pay for his flat. He says he is deep in the hole and he has no money to pay for his flat. He confessed he was deep in the hole and had no money to pay for

his flat. Today he has declared for everyone to hear that he is deep in the hole and has no money to

pay for the flat. They wondered if he had any debts. They tried to find out if he had money to pay for the flat. They want to know why I have no money to pay for the flat. Do you want to know if I can pay for the flat? Did you want to find out if I could pay for the flat? Do you want to know when I

will pay for the flat? He wondered if I was going to get clear of debts in the foreseeable future.

3. How long are you going to stay in our town? He wonders how long we are going to stay here. He tried to find out how long we were going to stay there. He wondered if we would have been there before it started raining. Do you want to know if we will have been here till Christmas? Why didn’t you try to find out how long they were going to stay there? Do you guess why he didn’t ask them how long they were going to stay there? He has just told he won’t be able to find out how long they are going to stay here. I’ve just found out how long they are going to stay here.

4. We can't afford to spend money like water. They say they can't afford to spend money like water.

They confessed they couldn't afford to spend money like water. They complained that under the circumstances or, rather, in their parents’ presence they couldn’t afford to spend money like water.

Are you pleased with the fact that you can spend money like water? She wondered if we were

pleased with the fact that we could afford to spend money like water at last. I am not sure we can afford to spend money like water. Are you sure that you can afford to throw your money around?

5. She failed in exams to university. She said she had failed in exams to university. She confessed that had failed in exams to university ever the previous year/the year before. She is crying because she

has failed in the exam. He wondered why she had failed in exams. Didn’t you wonder why she had failed in exams? Did she tell you that she had failed in exams? I don’t know when she will confess to

her parents that she has failed in exams.