INDIRECT QUESTION

" Indirect questions " they are the questions that serve us when we want to ask something of polite form.
For his construction it is necessary bear in mind the following thing: the order of the subject, the auxiliary one and the principal verb will be the same that in the affirmation.

Example: Do you think I have is doing die? Yes I think I have is doing die.
 Translation:¿Crees que le está yendo bien? Si creo que le está yendo bien.

EXERCISES 1 "INDIRECT QUESTION"

Fill the gaps.

1	"Where's the station?"
	"Can you tell me ___________________________________________ ?"
2	"Are you coming to the party?"
	"Can you let me know if ___________________________________________ ?"
3	"How does it work?"
	"Can you explain ___________________________________________ ?"
4	"What's the the matter?"
	Please tell me ___________________________________________ ."
5	"Where are you from?"
	"I'd like to know ___________________________________________ ."
6	"How long does it take to get there?"
	"Do you know ___________________________________________ ?"
7	"Has she reached a decision yet?"
	"Has she told you whether ___________________________________________ ?"
8	"What time are you leaving?"
	"Do you know ___________________________________________ ?"
9	"Does Annie know about computers?"
	"I wonder whether ___________________________________________ ."
10	"Excuse me. How do you get to the post office from here?"
	"Could you tell us ___________________________________________ ?"

EXERCISES 2 "INDIRECT QUESTION"

Choose the correct option.

1.   "What's the the matter?"
Please tell me _______________________ ."
a-what the matter is
b-what is the matter
c-what's the matter


 2.   "Could you lend me 50 Euros?"
"Is there any chance _______________________ ?"
 a-could you borrow me 50 Euros
b-you lend me 50 Euros
c-you could lend me 50 Euros


3.  "Could you take me to the airport?"
"Is there any chance _______________________ ?"
a- could you take me to the airport
b-you could take me to the airport
c- that you take me to the airport

4. "How long does it take to get there?"
"Do you know _______________________ ?"
a-how many time does it take to get there
b-how long it takes to get there
c-how long it take to get there

5.   "Are you coming to the party?"
"Can you let me know if _______________________ ?"
a-you are coming to the party
b-to come to the party
c- are you coming to the party

 6.   "How does it work?"
"Can you explain _______________________ ?"
a-how it work
b-how can it work
c-how it works

7.   "Where are you from?"
"I'd like to know _______________________ ."
a-where you are from
b-where are you from
c-where're you from


8.  "Excuse me. How do you get to the post office from here?"
"Could you tell us _______________________ ?"
a-how do you get to the post office
b-to get to the post office
c-how to get to the post office

9.  "Where's the station?"
"Can you tell me _______________________ ?"
a-where the station is
b-where is the station
c-where be the station

10.  "What are you doing?!"
"Do you have any idea _______________________ ?!"
 a-what you are doing
b-what are you doing
c-what you do

CAUSATIVE FORM

The causative form is used when we speak about a professional service which someone has done for us.

• She is having her typewriter repaired.

We make the causative form:

{subject}+{have}+{object}+{past participle}

• I had may hair cut
• She will have her house decorated
• They are having their garden landscaped
• He is going to have his car resprayed

We can use the same pattern to talk about an aften bad experience:

• She had her house burgled
• We had our money stolen
• We had our car vandalized

We can also use get instead of have but this is informal.

EXERCISES 1 "CAUSATIVE"

                                                                       Causative form

• He paints his shoes.                                 He .......his shoes ......
• He is mending his car.                              He .......his car ..........
• She wateres her garden.                           She ......her garden ....
• She was perming her hair.                        She.......her hair permed
• I will repair the roof.                                I...........the roof...........
• The manager has cleaned the windows.    The manager......the windows.....
• She has been taking photos.                     She.......photos..........
• You had ironed your T-shirt.                    You......your shirt......
• He had been decorating your house.         You......your house....
• He may send the parcel.                           You......the parcel......

EXERCISES 2 "CAUSATIVE"

• I´m going to have Mike ..... my computer to see what is wrong.

Look at ------- To look at

• One of my wisdom teeth really hurt, so i went to the dentist ....

To have it remove ------- To have it removed

• Are you going to ..... like this?

Allow him suffer ------- Let him suffer

• Jimmy is dead. The mafia boss ......

Had killed ------- Had him killed

• Julie will not ...... the boy from across the street.

Let her daughter marry ------- Let her daughter to marry 

• I had the ..... when i was renovating my apartment.

Wall to be knocked down ------- Wall knocked down

• I .... her and apologize.

Made him called ------- Made himm call

• I have .... many times.

Had my heart broken ------- Had muy heart broke

• The authorities .... as soon as they found out she was there ilegally.

Had her deported ------- Have her deport

• I ...... on my lower back.

Had tattoo done ------- Had a tattoo done

ALL/MOST/SOME/NONE OF

They are used on having referred to a group of things
for expample:

All cars have wheels.

Some people are very unfriendly

Most tourists don't visit this part of the town

None of this money is mine. 

->all/most/some of + plural pronoun is followed by a plural verb.
Most of us/you/them believe this is wrong.
->none of + plural pronoum is followed by singular verb.
none of us/you/them is prepared to make such a sacrifice.

EXERCISE 1 ALL/MOST/SOME/NONE OF

---> writes the word that corresponds

1) ____ eat soup in the morning?
2) there are _____ grapes.
3) try _____ green vegetables.
4) Peter is the ______ intelligent in the class.
5) ______ the tickets were sold out in one hour.
6) ______ fruit is healthy.
7) eat_____ fruit.
8) ______of the members has arrived yet.
9)_______ of them is from Germany.
10)_______expensive shopping center.

REPORTE SPEECH

He imagines a conversation between two persons. The direct speech is based in saying what the person has said with his textual words, The reported speech tries itself to communicate what another person has said, but not using his textual words, to report of what another person has said, using your own words.

for example:
I always drink coffee
She said that she always drank coffee. 


Into report your you change the verbs:


present simple-------->past simple
present continuos----->past continuos
present perfect-------->past perfect
past simple------------>past simple or past perfect
past continuos--------->past continuos or past perfect continnuos

EXERCISES 1 "REPORTED SPEECH"

Complete the sentences in reported speech      

direct speech                        reported speech

-Peter never comes to
my birthday party                   ->                           

-I can't believe you                 ->                            

-He is going to open
the front door                         ->                           

-What are you looking for?     ->                             

-Which skirt did you choose?  ->                             

-How old are the twins?          ->                             

-I want to tell you something
about my  holiday in London   ->                           

-Colombia is a multicultural
place.                                    ->                              

-I love Bogotá.                      ->    
-Me and my parents visited
the Tower.                            ->

EXERCISES 2 "REPORTED SPEECH"

It chooses the correct one

->sarah said, I want to visit my friends this weekend.
sarah said he wants to visit his friends that weekend. 
sarah said he wanted to visit his friends that weekend. 
sarah said he wanted to visit his friends this weekend.

-> Jerry said, I'm studying English a lot at the moment.
Jerry said he was studying English a lot at that moment.
Jerry said he was studying English a lot at the moment. 
 Jerry said I was studying English a lot at that moment.

->Peter said I get up every morning at seven o'clock.
Peter said he got up every morning at seven o'clock.
Peter said I got up every morning at seven o'clock. 
 Peter said he had got up every morning at seven o'clock. 

-> She said, I really wish I had bought that new car.
 She told me she really wished she bought that new car.
She told me she really had wished she had bought that new car.
She told me she really wished she had bought that new car. 

->Cheryl asked her, How long have you lived here?
 Cheryl asked her how long she has lived there. 
 Cheryl asked her how long she lived there.
Cheryl asked her how long she had lived there. 


->He said, I must get going. Otherwise, I'm going to be late.
  He told me he had to get going. Otherwise, he was going to be late. 
 He told me he had to get going. Otherwise, I was going to be late. 
 He told me he has to get going. Otherwise, he was going to be late. 


->She said, I've worked here since I left my last job. 
She told me that she worked there since she had left her last job. 
 She told me that she had worked there since she had left her last job.
 She told me that she had worked there since she left her last job. 

-> You said, I will help you! 
You said you would help me!
 You said I would help you!
 You said you would help her! 

-> She asked me, When are we going to leave? 
She asked me when she was going to leave.
She asked me when we were going to leave.
 She asked me when we are going to leave. 

-> Mark asked me, Why do you want to study Russian?
Mark asked her why I wanted to study Russian.
 Mark asked me why did I want to study Russian.
 Mark asked me why I wanted to study Russian.