相应的变化
• 直接引语变间接引语时, 指示代词、时间状语 、地点状语等要作相应的变化。如:this/that→ these/those, now →then, today →that day, yesterday →the day before, last year →the year before, ago →before, here →there等。例如:
时态不变的情况
• 直接引语是客观事实、普遍真理等,变成 间接引语时,时态不变。例如:
• They told their son,"The earth goes round the sun."→
• They told their son that the earth goes round the sun.
•ould do it or not.
•
He hesitated about whether to drive or take
the train.
特殊疑问句
• 直接引语是特殊疑问句,变成间接引语 时,由相应的疑问词who, whom, whose, how, when, why, where 等引导。例如:
• The captain ordered, "Be quiet."→
• The captain ordered us to be quiet. • 注意:此种情况的否定句,在动词不
定式前加not。
• My teacher asked me, "Don't laugh."→
• My teacher asked me not to laugh.
•
He said, "I haven't seen her today."→