Exercise 8. Rewrite the following sentences in direct speech.
1. Viet said that he would be doing an experiment at 10 o’clock the following day.
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2. Mr. Quang told me that they hadn’t been at the Science Club the night before.
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3. He said that he was going to hire a robot the following Saturday.
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4. Mary told me that her parents didn’t want her to participate in that project.
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5. They said that they wouldn’t send people to the Moon the following year.
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6. I asked Ms. Gray if she could speak Martian language.
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7. Vinh asked Peter whether there were other life forms in the universe.
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8. Hoa asked me whether I had been leaving the spaceship at 3 o’clock the day before.
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9. They wanted to know if we would ever meet aliens one day.
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10. We asked Mr. Tam whether he was working for NASA then.
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11. I asked Dr. Lewis when he thought people would visit Mars.
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12. David asked me what I had talked to the astronaut the previous night.
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13. She asked Mr. Armstrong how long he had worked on space projects.
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14. The reporter wanted to know why I hadn’t taken a picture when I had seen the UFO.
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15. We asked the aliens which cities they would visit the following month.
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III. Rewrite the sentences in direct or indirect speech.
1. "Production of these chemicals causes serious environmental pollution", said the scientists.
à The scientists said that production of these chemicals caused serious environmental pollution
2. "New scientific discoveries are being made all the time."
à We believed that new scientific discoveries were being made all the time
3. Miss Anne said that she was doing scientific experiments at that moment.
à Miss Anne:" I am doing scientific experiments at that moment "
4. Minh asked his friend who he had been out with the weekend before.
à Minh:"Who were you out with last weekend ?"
5. They asked us how we had got on with David two days before.
à They:" How did you get on with David two days ago?”
6. "The students will watch a documentary on the future of nuclear power tomorrow", said the teacher.
à The teacher said that The students would watch a documentary on the future of nuclear power the day after