直接英语间接引语

直接引语间接引语讲解及练习

引述别人的话时，一般采用两种方式：一是引用别人的原话，把它放在引号内，称为直接引语;二是用自己的话加以转述，被转述的话不放在引号内，称为间接引语。间接引语在大多数情况下是一个宾语从句。直接引语变成间接引语时，要注意以下几点：人称变化、时态变化、宾语从句要用陈述句语序等。

1. 直接引语是陈述句，变成间接引语时，由连词that 引导。例如：

She said, “I am very happy to be with you.” →She said (that) she was very happy to be with me.

He said,“I will choose a book for my students.” →He said(that)he would choose a book for his students.

2. 直接引语是一般疑问句时，变成间接引语，由连词whether或if 引导。例如：

He asked me, “Do you like watching TV?”→He asked me if/whether I liked watching TV.

He asked, “Are you sure your mother will come?”→He asked me whether / if I was sure my mother would come.

*注意：大多数情况下， if和whether 在引导宾语从句时可以互换，但后紧跟or not时,一般只用whether。例如：She asked me whether or not he could do the work. / She asked me whether he could do the work or not.

3. 直接引语是特殊疑问句，变成间接引语时，由相应的连接词who, whom, what, whose, how, when, why, where 等引导。例如：

He asked: “Where are you to get off, John?” →He asked John where he was to get off.

My sister asked me, “How do you like the play?”→My sister asked me how I liked the play.

Tom asked me, “Who is the boy over there?”→Tom asked me, “Who was the boy over there?”

4. 直接引语是祈使句，其间接引语由主语+动词ask(委婉语气)，tell(一般语气)，order (命令语气)或warn, advise等+复合宾语(名/代词+动词不定式)构成。如：

He said, “Please come here again tomorrow.”→He asked me to go there again the next day.

“Be careful with the dog.”→He warned me to be careful with the dog.

5. 直接引语变间接引语时，如果引述动词为过去式，需注意时态的变化：如：

1) Betty said, “Lingling is singing in the classroom now.” 现在进行时→

Betty said Lingling was singing in the class room then.-过去进行时

2) He said, “I will go to London next week.” 一般将来时→

He said he would go to London next week. 过去将来时

3) My mother said, “I have already cleaned the house.” 现在完成时→

My mother said she had already cleaned the house. 过去完成时

*注意:

1. 直接引语是客观事实、普遍真理等，主句尽管是过去时态，变成间接引语时，时态仍然用一般现在时态。

例如：They told their son,“The earth goes round the sun.”→They told their son that the earth goes round the sun.

2. 直接引语变间接引语时，指示代词、时间状语、地点状语、动词等要作相应的变化。

如：this→that, these→those, now→then, today→that day, yesterday→the day before, last year→the year before, ago→before, here→there ，come→go，tomorrow→the next day，next month→the month after，last year→the year before，a week ago→a week before，bring→take，now→then，the day after tomorrow→in tow day's time，the day before yesterday→tow days before earlier

例如：He said, “I haven’t seen them today.” →He said that he hadn’t seen them that day.

但是，如果转述时对话人双方就在原来的地方，或在说话的当天，就不必改变相应的时间状语、地点状语等。总之,对这些变化不能机械理解，应根据实际情况来决定所作的变化。

3．情态动词的变化

情态动词在间接引语中都可以改为过去式，must表示必、推测、禁止等意思时，可不变；表示必须时可不变，也可用had to 或would have to。

如：The senior said, All men must die.

→ The senior said that all men must die. 那老者说人总是要死的。

She said, I must go to see the doctor tomorrow afternoon.

→ She said she would have to go to see the doctor the next afterno on. 她说第二天下午她一定得去看医生。 He said to me, We used to go there every year.

→ He told me that they used to come here every year. 他对我说他们过去每年都来这里。（used to在间接引语中不变）