Reported speech
1. ‘I’ve no idea what the time is but I’ll dial 1080 and find out’ said his daughter.
2. he said, ‘ my wife has just been made a judge.’
3. ‘I’ll come with you as soon as I am ready,’ she replied..
4. ‘I have a German lesson this afternoon and I haven’t done my homework yet,’ said the boy.
5. ‘If you let the iron get too hot you will scorch your clothes.’ I warned her.
6. ‘You haven’t given me quite enough. The bill is for $16 and you have paid me only $10’ he pointed out.
7. ‘ Do you play the guitar?’ said Peter.
8. ‘Will you have time to play regularly?’ he said .
9. ‘Did you play for your school team?’ said Bill.
10. “Put your pistol on the table,’ said the director.
11. ‘ Please book me a seat in a non- smoker,’ said the traveller.
12. ‘Don’t forget your sandwiches,’ said his mother.
13. ‘ Don’t go near the water, children,’ she said.
14. ‘Search the house,’ said the police.
15. ‘ Don’t make mountains out of molehills,’ he said.
16. ‘ Put down that gun. It is loaded,’ she ordered.
17. ‘ Can the children get dinner at school, John?’ said Janes.
18. ‘ Is there a bus- stop in your town, James ?’ I wanted to know.
19. ‘ How often does it meet?’ George said to her.
20. ‘ Were your own boys happy here?’ Linda said to Maria.
21. ‘ Open the safe!’ The raiders order the clerk.
22. ‘ Please do as I say’ he begged me.
23. ‘ Don’t make too much noise, children,’ said the mother.
24. ‘ You’d better slow down. There’s a speed limit here,’ she said to me. ( advise)
25. ‘ I could not get into the house because I had lost my keys, so I had to break the door,’ said he.
26. ‘ The mirror is there so that you can see your self when you are dancing,’ she told him.
27. ‘ I wrote to him the day before yesterday. I wonder why he hasn’t rung up,’ she said.
28. ‘ My horse might win,’ said the owner.
29. ‘ You needn’t speak to my sister,’ David said to Janes.
30. ‘ If I were taller, I would climb the door,’ he said.

19. ‘ Pull as hard as you can’ He said to her.
20. ‘ Good morning, Lan’ said Ha.
21. ‘ Don’t go alone’ I said to him.
22. ‘ Think well before you answer’ the teacher said to me.
23. ‘ Remember to write to your mother,’ I said to them.
24. ‘ Pay at the cash desk’ the shop assistant said to her
25. ‘ See if you can find an shoes, children’ she said.
26. ‘ Let me come in’ he said to us.
27. ‘ Don’t follow that car. It is dangerous.’ Said Davi.
28. ‘ Bye, bye !’ she said to me.
29. ‘ Wait for me under the bridge’ he said to me.
30. ‘ Please, please send whatever you can spare,’ said my father.
31. ‘ Don’t bathe when the red flag is flying,’ said the lifeguard.
32. ‘ Why are you looking through the keyhole?’ I said.
33. ‘ Who has just put salt in my coffee?’ he asked.
34. ‘ Which of you knows how to make Chinese Cakes,’ said the chief cook.
35. ‘ Who owns this car,?’ said the police.
36. ‘ What else did you see?’ I asked the boy.
37. ‘ What an old man !’ she said.
38. ‘ How tall she is !’ he said.
39. ‘ Happy birthday to you’ I said to Jane.
40. ‘ I was born in 1984’ I said.
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Reported speech
Quy tắc chung:
+ Đối với câu trần thuật thì thêm liên từ that hoặc không. Dùng động từ say that ( to smb that ) , tell smb that.
+ Đối với câu hỏi có từ để hỏi thì dùng từ để hỏi đó làm liên từ, với câu không có từ để hỏi thì dùng liên từ If
hoặc Whether, dùng động từ nh : ask, enquire, want to know Với câu cảm thán thì dùng : Exclaim.
+ Đối với câu mệnh lệnh thức dùng : tell, ask, order, advise, beg . smb ( not ) to do smt.

10. Im sorry for doing smt / about smt
11. Happy birthday
12. Good luck
13. Welcome to Mongcai .
14. Hello! Hi / Good morning
15. What a fine day it is ! ( câu cảm thán)
16. Bye !
17. Lets not
18. Dont let people cheat you .
19. Let them go .
20. Let me go .
21. If youd sign here ..
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Ex: He said , I was born in 1980 He said that he was born in 1980
- Câu điều kiện loại 2/ 3 / câu giả định wish
Ex: she said I wish I were rich ..that she wished she were rich
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Chó ý: Cßn nhiÒu trêng hîp, tuú theo ng÷ c¶nh ®Ó thÝch hîp c©u gi¸n tiÕp (thank you so much)
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