Prime Time 5, Transition, Coursebook mit Audio-CD

G Indirect speech  Page 86 When you convert direct speech into indirect speech, be aware of the following changes: • Backshi of tenses if the reporting verb is in a tense of the past tense group • Adaptation of personal pronouns and possessives to the point of view of the person reporting • Adaptation of expressions of time and place to the point of view of the person reporting • Changes in sentence type , e. g. question  indirect question, imperative  in¡nitive construction Direct speech Indirect speech present tense past tense “We like the way you handle stress.” The manager told me that they liked the way I handled stress. present perfect past perfect “We’ve been looking for someone like you.” He said they had been looking for someone like me. past tense past perfect “We had a very nice student here , but he left us last week .” He said that they had had a very nice student there , but that he had left them the week before . will would “We’ll pay you ten pounds an hour.” He told me that they would pay me ten pounds an hour. question word question word “When can you start?” He wanted to know when I could start. no question word whether or if “Do you live in the city?” He asked me whether I lived in the city. command infinitive with (not) to “Try to get here as early as possible.” “And don’t believe the stories you’ve heard about us.” He told me to get there as early as possible. And he told me not to believe the stories I had heard about them. The passive voice  Page 103 Most sentences are in the active voice . ey state something about the agent of an action, i.e. who does what: I take out the rubbish every day. Sentences in the passive voice , on the other hand, state something about what happens to a person or thing; the agent is not important: The rubbish is taken out every day. If you want to include the agent use by : The rubbish is taken out by me every day. Passive sentences are formed by using a form of to be + past participle . ey can be formed in all tenses. To form negations add not to the form of to be . To form questions switch the form of to be and the subject. G7        G8 162 Grammar Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv