2014-11-19 Structure: direct/indirect speech

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: p. 167 and p. 172
p. 167 exercise 5
2 by what you tell
3 Ask yourself if the joke you want to tell is vulgar.
4 you remember what the key details are.
5 Make sure that you have...
6 Be certain that you remember what the punch line...
7 The fact that you can remember
8  Whether to laugh at your own jokes
Whether you should laugh at your own jokes...
-> Whether to laugh at...
Please tell me how I can get to the store.
-> Please tell me how to get to the store.
("Do you know how to ___?" is much more common than "Do you know how you can ___?" or "Do you know how you should __?")
p. 172 part A
1 what the punch line of the joke was
2 why he always tells that joke
3 what time the meeting starts
4 what hyperbole means
5 whether Samira liked the party
6 what Mary does for a living
7 how long she's been a writer
8 whether or not
(We're not sure if Danilo will be able to play or not.)
part B
1 what Mary meant
2 whether or not Bob / if Bob
3 Whatever you want
4 That Alison loves Kahlil / The fact that Alison loves...
5 what we should give Russell
6 the fact that Ben helped us
7 that she was / why she was
At the beginning of a sentence, "the fact that" is more common than just "that".
After a preposition, "the fact that" is necessary.
part C
1 D
2 B
3 A
4 C
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Where is the bathroom?
-> Do you know where the bathroom is?

Why is he laughing?
-> Do you know why he is laughing?

How does she know him?
-> Do you know how she knows him?

Does she know him?
-> Do you know if she knows him?

Where does she know him from?
-> Do you know where she knows him from?

Who came to the party?
-> Do you know who came to the party?

Whom does she know here?
-> Do you know whom she knows here?
(If a person is the object of the noun clause, we can use "whom" instead of "who".)

I	me	my	mine
he	him	his	his
who	whom	whose	whose

Whose coat is on my chair?
-> Do you know whose coat is on my chair?

Whose coat are you wearing?
-> Do you know whose coat you are wearing?
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http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/04/everything-dont-know-tipping.html
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rancor: anger, bad or bitter feelings, resentment

sugarcoat: make something bad seem nicer than it really is

self-righteous: when someone has the idea that they are better (more correct / more right) than everyone else
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Direct Speech:

He said, "The bill seems very high."
"The bill seems very high," he said.
"The bill," he said, "seems very high."
"The bill seems very high," he said. "We don't want to pay."
He said, "The bill seems very high. We don't want to pay."

"The bill seems very high," the man said.
"The bill seems very high," said the man.

He asked, "Is the tip included?"
"Is the tip included?" he asked.
"Is the tip," he asked, "included?"

(In a story, a new speaker should start a new paragraph.)

He was like, "Clean your room." And I was like, "I'll clean my room after you go away."
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Indirect Speech:

He said (that) the bill seemed very high.
He said (that) they didn't want to pay.

He asked whether/if the tip was included.
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p. 181 part B
2 C
3 C
4 I
5 I - ...how much the service was.
6 I - He said they were short of time.
7 C
8 I - He told them to...
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Homework: p. 181 part A and 182 exercise 2
	(Also: read the grammar notes p. 178-180)