REPORTED SPEECH AND PASSIVE VOICE gr. 5
I. Supply the correct form of the verbs in brackets:
What, did you say, ___________________________ /DO/ when the house ___________________________ /PULL/ down?
2-3.Tom categorically demanded ___________________________ /INFORM/ about what our solutions ___________________________ /LOOK/ like if we ___________________________ /HAVE/ any and whether ___________________________ /HIRE/ a specialist firm.
4-5. Towards the end of the discussion I ___________________________ /REPROACH/ for ___________________________ /MAKE+NOT/ them ___________________________ /HAVE/ their office ___________________________ /DESIGN/ by our company.
6. He said it ___________________________ /BE/ high time I ___________________________ /BEGIN/ to behave like an adult.
7-8. John said that although he ___________________________ /OBJECT+NEVER/ to ___________________________ /PUT/ in charge of larger groups of people, it ___________________________ /BE/ a matter of the past since he no longer ___________________________ /WANT/ to be burdened with such responsibility.
9. Would you believe that Christina ___________________________ /TELL/ the others she ___________________________ /PASS/ Proficiency? And that she was quite sure about it?
10. They were definitely angry at ___________________________ /WARN+NOT/ against ___________________________ /COME/ near that terribly looking dog.
II. Finish each of the following sentences, using a reported or a passive construction,
in such a way that it means the same as the sentence before it.
1. "You must be very disappointed, especially that you expected something else", Jane said to Mark.
While talking to Mark, Jane .............................................................................................................................
2. "You liar!", Martin shouted at Ann. "I wish you were dead!"
Martin ..............................................................................................................................................................
3. Everybody claimed that they had not seen Teddy win anything.
Teddy ...............................................................................................................................................................
4. "Be careful with this knife! It's very sharp", I said to Bill.
Jennie admitted ...............................................................................................................................................
5. What I don't like is people listening in on my private conversations.
I object to .......................................................................................................................................................
6. Apparently the ship did not sustain any damage.
The sheep ........................................................................................................................................................
7. "Yuk!", Mrs. Jones said. “What a disgusting piece of cake!”
Mrs. Jones .......................................................................................................................................................
8. If only they hadn't made off with that valuable necklace!
If only that valuable ........................................................................................................................................
9. "I really must get going", Mike said to us, “or I'll miss my train”.
Mike told us ....................................................................................................................................................
10. At that time my aunt was looking after the kids.
At that time the kids ........................................................................................................................................
11. "If I had so much money as they do, I would start thinking about going into the outer space", James said.
James confessed ..............................................................................................................................................
12. There is no definite decision as to the venue of the next Olympics.
It ..................................................................................................................................................................
13. "Greece has a long recorded history", Bill said, “which is why it's so easy to study it”.
Bill remarked ..................................................................................................................................................
14. "When they noticed you", the detective said to Eve, “what were you doing?”.
The detective ..................................................................................................................................................
15. When was it that they used to comply with her stupid demands?
When .................................................................................................................................................................
III. Rewrite the sentences by means of a reported or passive construction, using the words in capital letters.
1. "Me? No, I didn't take your calculator", I said to Frank. /DENIED/ ___________________________________________________________________________________
2. A man called Jorge is allegedly the ringleader. /SUSPECTED/
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3. "I think it is extremely unlikely that you'll have to testify”, my lawyer said to me. /REASSURED/
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4. "What?! You can't be serious! To take on a man like Elvis P.!!", Jim's wife said to him. /EXPRESSED/
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5. People say that the total amount collected is nearing $100,000. /RECKONED/
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6. Someone had fixed the frames for Annie. /GOT/
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7. Why did they shoe that horse? /NEEDN'T/
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8. Who had them account for it? /THEY/
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9. “No, I definitely won't work on Sunday. I'm not a slave”, she shouted to her boss. /REFUSED/
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10. "Don't let's think about holidays in Majorca. They must be very expensive", Bo said. /HAD/
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11. "What a pity they have to endure her whims", Elena said. /ENDURED/
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12. “You must go back or else we'll give you up”, the secretary said to me. /WAS/
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13. " Your work is not sufficiently good", Ann said to Michael. /ABOUT/
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14. I'm sure they use whisky to make Irish coffee. /MADE/
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15. Has anyone ever broken into your house? /HAVE/
IV. In most lines of the following text there is one mistake. In order to correct it, you may have to change the verb form, insert, change or delete a word. In the spaces provided, show the changes you've made to an incorrect line. If a line is correct, put a tick (V) in the spaces provided.
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Having disgusted by an Australian woman's loud love-making, her neighbours |
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decided to complain to the council. They raised a petition to Phillip Council in |
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Melbourne insisting that she might tone down her bedroom behaviour. But the |
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woman, in her 30s, who asked to not be identified, has told The Herald Sun she |
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is shocked by the claims. She says she did not believe she was excessively loud: |
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"It's probably because my bed is up against the wall," she said. "There is no |
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sound-proofing in these apartments. People can be heard to snoring next door, |
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clearing their throat, and even having sex." She said her flatmates have never |
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complained and said she would not be made into selling her apartment in the |
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exclusive development. On the contrary, she said she will go on leading her life |
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in much the same way. But one of the neighbours has had an open letter publish |
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in which he has confessed to hear her every time she has sex and warned her |
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never to be able to play music at any time, entertain guests or wear shoes." A Port |
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Phillip Council spokeswoman said the claims being investigated and encouraged |
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the sides seeking agreement as the complaint “is not covered by local laws". |
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