1 当直接引语为陈述句,变为间接引语时,从句中人称、时态、指示代词、时间、地点(状语)等都要发生变化。
2 当直接引语为疑问句,变为间接引语时,从句中人称、时态、指示代词、时间、地点、语序等都要发生变化。
二 引导词
1 直接引语为陈述句用that引导(可省略)。
2 直接引语为一般疑问句用if/whether引导。
3 直接引语为特殊疑问句用疑问词引导(切记:后用陈述语序)。
4 直接引语为祈使句(命令句)用to do。
三时态
1 直接引语为一般现在时,间接引语根据需要选用时态。
2 直接引语为一般过去时,间接引语变化如下:
一般现在时→一般过去时
一般将来时→过去将来时
现在进行时→过去进行时
一般过去式→过去完成时
现在完成时→过去完成时
过去完成时→过去完成时
3 直接引语为客观真理,变间接引语时,时态不变。
四 常见变化
1 say→tell/ask(针对直接引语首/主句)
2 this →that these→ those
3 last week→ the week before
next week →the next week
now →then
today →that day
yesterday →the day before
tomorrow →the next day
a day ago →a day before

4 here →there
5 come →go
巩固练习(按顺序编排):
1 She said,"I have to say goodbye now."
2 She said to us,"It may snow tonight."
3 " I bought the glasses yesterday," She said to me.
4 "Is your mother a doctor ?" She asked Lily.
5 She asked " Where is Linda ?"
6 " Who has brought you to the hospital?" the nurse asked the girl.
7 " Please read ten pages today," the teacher said to the students.
8 The teacher said to us, " The earth travels around the sun."
9He said, " I was a soldier in 2008." (注意此题)
参考答案:
1 She said she had to say goodbye then.
2 She told us it might snow that night.
3 She told me she had bought the glasses the day before.
4 she asked Lily if her mother was a doctor.
5 She asked where Linda was.
6 The nurse asked the girl who had brought her to the hospital.
7 The teacher toldthe students to read 10 pages that day.
8 The teacher told us the earth travels around the sun.
9 He said he was a soldier in 2008.