IV. Переделайте следующие предложения, заменив прямую речь косвенной.

Образцы: а) Нe said: «She will come tomorrow.» He said (that) she would come the next day.

b) She said to me; «I am busy.» She told me (that) she was busy.

c) They asked me: «Do you speak French?» They asked me whether (if) I spoke French.

d) My father asked me: «When did you leave home yesterday?»

My father asked me when I had left home the day before.

e) The boy said: «Bring me some water.» They boy asked to bring him some water.

1. She answered: «I did not work day and night.» 2. I asked her: «Will you come to see us to-morrow?» 3. The doctor said: «I shall apply for this post.» 4. He asked me: «Is there only one hotel in the town?» 5. I answered: «He shares the room with his brother.» 6. They asked us: «Where did you come from?» 7. We answered: «He did not spend the evening with us.» 8. Jane said: «Wait for me, at the school entrance.» 9. He asked: «When did you have lunch to-day?» 10. The girl said to them: «Stop talking.» 11. The professor asked the students: «Are you ready to listen to the lecture?». 12. A young man asked the policeman: «How can I get to London University?» 13. She asked me: «Shall we get off the bus at the next stop?» 14. The old woman asked us: «Where did you go yesterday?» 15. The grandmother asked me: «Did you go to school last year?» 16. My father said: «You can buy a new coat next year.» 17. She said: «I am good at languages.» 18. The boy said «I have never eaten such a dish in my life.»

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The Lost Gold Piece

Once a rich merchant arranged dinner for poor people, ex-soldiers. Mr. Lebeau was among the guests. After dinner Grandin, the host, showed his guests a large gold coin. Each man examined it with interest as it passed around the long table. However, talking and drinking the men soon forgot all about the coin. Later on the guests were about to leave the house. Grandin thought of the coin and asked for it. But the coin was gone. The village lawyer being one of the guests suggested that everybody should be searched. All at once agreed but Lebeau. His friends looked at him with surprise. «I cannot allow it» he said. «I did not steal the coin. I will not allow anybody to search me», he repeated. One by one the rest turned out their pockets but the coin was not found. Lebeau would not turn out his pocket though his friends were persuading him to. It seemed suspicious to everybody. From that day on nobody respected Lebeau.

A few years passed. When this episode had become almost legendary, Grandin decided to rebuild his house. A workman found the gold coin between .two planks of the floor of the room in which the dinner had taken place.

Grandin hurried to Lebeau's poor home and told him that he had found the coin and apologized for having suspected him. «But why did you not allow us to search you if you. had not taken the coin?» he asked.

Lebeau answered: «Because I was a thief all the same. For weeks my family and I had not enough to eat and my pockets were full of food that I had taken from the table to carry home for my wife and hungry children»

Notes

coin – монета to persuade - убеждать

to respect – уважать to apologize - извиниться

to search – обыскивать suspicious - подозрительный

plank – половица to suspect - подозревать

Lesson 14