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THE FUTURE INDEFINITE-IN-THE-P A ST TENSE
Exercise 60. Make up five sentences from the table. |
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I |
said |
that |
I |
would |
come in time. |
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He |
thought |
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he |
should |
be busy on Friday. |
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She |
knew |
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she |
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go there the next day. |
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We |
hoped |
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we |
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get tickets beforehand. |
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You |
told us |
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you |
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be twenty the next year. |
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They |
wrote |
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they |
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work in Siberia. |
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Exercise 61. Change from direct into indirect speech. |
Model: He said, “I shall go." — He said that he would go.
1. They said, “We shall return in two days.” 2. The woman said, “My son will be at home in the evening.” 3. The man said, “It will be very cold in January.” 4. I said, “Г11 be' very busy in the afternoon.” 5. The teacher said, “I shall explain it on Monday.” 6. Ann said, “My parents will buy me a piano.” 7. She said: “Your brother will hardly agree with this judgment”. 8. Hilda said: “And then we’ll have tea in the garden”. 9. Betty said: “I’ll go home and shall not stay to dinner after all”. 10. Mr. Parker Pyne said: “Of course the boy will be very upset”.
Model: The boy said,"I shall translate it if I get a dictionary". — The boy said that he would translate it if he got a
dictionary.
1. The man said, “I shall catch the train if I take a taxi”.
2. Mother said, “I shall miss the train if I don’t hurry.”
3. The girl said, “I shall ring him up if I get tickets”. 4. The boy said, “I’ll go skating if it is not very cold”. 5. Mother said, “We’ll have dinner as soon as father comes”. 6. He said, “I shall wait till the clock strikes nine”. 7. The teacher said, “Paul will fail at the examination if he doesn’t work hard”. 8. The pupils said, “We shall work in our village after we finish school”. 9. He said: “I’ll go below now and get to bed before the boat starts”. 10. “They will keep my luggage till I give my new address1’, she said.
Exercise 62. Make up dialogues using the substitution table. A: I thought you would come to see me.
play chess with me ■
ring me up at eight, teach me to drive a motor cycle.
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