Hello!
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Reproduce the story in reported speech.
Reproduceți relatarea în vorbirea indirectă.
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A Street Incident
One visitor from the continent was spending his holidays in England. In a street of an English town a policeman stopped him.
The policeman asked him why he was driving on the right side of the road.
The visitor asked if he wanted him to drive on the wrong side. The policeman answered that he was driving on the wrong side.
The visitor uttered that policman had said he had been driving on the right side.
The policeman told him that he had been driving on the right side and that was wrong, the right side was the left side.
The visitor said that was a strange country, where left was right and right was wrong. He added that he was right when he was on the wrong side, and he said that he wanted to go to Bellwood, and he asked the policeman if he could tell him the way.
The policeman answered him that at the end of the road, he had to turn left.
The visitor asked to let him see and he added that left was right and right was wrong and he asked him if that was the idea.
The policeman answered that if he turned left he would be right but if he turned right he would be wrong.
The visitor thanked him for the explanation and added that he would do his best not to forget it.
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Observaţii:
- Vorbirea indirectă (reported/indirect speech) se foloseşte pentru a vorbi despre trecut, de aceea vom schimba timpurile verbelor folosite în vorbirea directă de către interlocutor.
- În vorbirea indirectă, folosim verbe precum "a spune", "a zice", "a relata", "a întreba".
- În vorbirea indirectă nu mai folosim ghilimelele.
He said "I know the truth". (direct speech)
He said (that) he knew the truth. (indirect speech)
