Reported speech with backshift

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 445.

Student A Student B

Student B Answer with the correct response on the right.

Student A Read a statement on the left.

Exercise 20 Work with a partner.

1 I didn't laugh at this joke. Why? Had you left your passport

at home?

2 Were you surprised by the ending of the film? Why? Had you heard it before?

3. I went to the airport, but I couldn't get That's a pity. Hadn't you stayed there

on the plane. before?

4 I was homesick the whole time I was living

in France. Really? I didn't know he'd been

married before.

5 The hotel where we stayed on holiday was

awful! Really? I thought you'd met them

before.

6 I met my girlfriend's parents for the first time

last Sunday. No, I'd read the book, so I already

knew the story.

7 My grandfather had two sons from his first

marriage. That's really sad! Had you never lived

abroad before?

КОСВЕННАЯ РЕЧЬ И СОГЛАСОВАНИЕ ВРЕМЁН

I. Если глагол в главном предложении стоит в прошедшем времени, то в косвенной речи время глагола изменяется в соответствии с правилом согласования времён:

Present Simple => Past Simple

Present Continuous => Past Continuous

Present Perfect => Past Perfect

Present Perfect Continuous => Past perfect Continuous

Past Simple => Past Perfect

Past Continuous => Past perfect Continuous

Вспомогательный глагол будущего времени will заменяется на would.