Câu gián tiếp: ( Reported speech / Indirect speech )
-Câu gián tiếp dùng để tường thuật lại lời nói trực tiếp từ người thứ nhất đến người thứ ba thông
qua người thứ hai
Một số lưu ý khi chuyển từ câu trực tiếp sang câu gián tiếp:
1.Cần nhớ các cách thay đổi:
-Thay đổi về thì: Thông thường , động từ trong câu gián tiếp sẽ đ ược lùi về một thì so với
câu trực tiếp
Direct Speech Reported Speech
Simple present Simple past
Present continuous Past continuous
Present perfect Past perfect
Simple past Past perfect
Past continuous Past perfect continuous
Simple future Future in the past ( S + would + V)
Conditional sentence type 1 Conditional sentence type 2
Conditional sentence type 2 Unchanged
\Conditional sentence type 3
-Đổi các từ chỉ thời gian và nơi chốn sao cho nghĩa các câu gián tiếp hợp lý , rõ ràng
Direct speech Indirect speech
This That
These Those
Here There
Now Then
Today That day
Ago Before
Tomorrow The next day / The following day
The day after tomorrow In two days' time
Yesterday The day before / The previous day
The day before yesterday Two days before
Next week The following week /The next week
Last week The previous week/ The week before

They asked me where she lived
Eg 3: “Why did you go to school late?” he said to me
He asked me why I had gone to school late
b.Câu hỏi với YES- NO question như : BE, HAVE, HAD, CAN, COULD, DO, DOES :
dùng Whether hoặc If
Eg 1: “Is she your sister?”Miss Hoa asked me
Miss Hoa asked me if she was my sister
Eg 2: The police said to her “ Can you drive?”
The police asked her if she could drive
Eg 3: “ Does Alice understand Vietnamese?” they wanted to know
They wanted to know if / weather Alice understood Vietnamese
Lưu ý: Whether dùng để diễn tả sự lựa chọn và được thay thế bởi “or”
Eg 1: Do you want to go by air or or by sea ?
He asked whether I wanted to go by air or by sea
Eg 2: Do you want to ensure your car or not?
He asked whether or not I wanted to ensure my car or not
c.Câu cảm thán:
-Các câu cảm thán dùng những động từ như : exclaim, greet, remark, cry out , complain,
tuỳ theo nghĩa của câu cảm thán
Eg1 : “What a beautiful skirt”
She exclaimed that the skirt was beautiful
Eg 2: “ Hello ,John! Where are you going now?” she said
She greeted John and asked him where he was going then
Eg 3: “ Oh! I have lost all money” he cried
He cried out that he had lost all of money
Eg 4 : “ Oh dear, my toothache is getting worse” she said
She complained that her toothache is getting worse
Eg 5 : “ Good!” he exclaimed
He gave an exclamation that her toothache was getting worse
Eg 6: He said to me: “ Thank you very much”