2015-01-26 Structure: reported speech test

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: handout p. 125
	  textbook p. 184
p. 184 exercise 4
2 I could
3 what she needed
4 she had to write
5 her
6 what the quotation was
7 it was
8 what she thought it meant
9 it was
10 would like
11 was
12 if she thought it meant
13 could learn
14 she understood
What do you think it means?
- "you" = Sally
	reported: I asked her what she thought it meant.
People will like you if you're a good listener.
- "you" = anyone in general
	reported: She said people would like you if you were a good listener.
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Handout
1 Guru Atmananda told her that she had squandered her life on the acquisition of material things and that she needed to let go of her attachments and find inner peace.
2 Her mother told her that she would be a lot happier if she settled down and had a family.
3 Her advisor told her that he had had a similar experience when he was her age. He had been looking for the perfect life, but when he had realized that he would never find it, he had applied to graduate school to get his Ph.D.. He told her that she should do the same thing.
4 Her psychiatrist told her that she might just be depressed and have a seratonin deficiency and that she could take antidepressant medication and she would probably feel much better.
5 Her best friend told her she had been working too hard and that she shouldn't have taken on that new position at work. She told her she could take a vacation.
6 Her boyfriend told her she had been feeling that way when he met her and that he thought it had to be her personality. He told her that she needed to accept herself.

She said, "When I got home, I cooked dinner."
-> She said that when she had gotten home, she had cooked dinner.

She said, "When I was a child, I went to Disney World."
-> She said that when she was a child, she had gone to Disney World.
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She said the movie had been worth seeing.
The doctor asked me how I had been sleeping.
	(...asked her how she had been sleeping. / ...him...he... / etc.)
Bob asked if I thought I would go to the play on Saturday. (if she thought she/etc)
Mrs. Jones asked Peter what he was studying.
James said that he might be home late that night.
Marion said that her husband had given her a beautiful ring for her birthday.