CHUYỂN TỪ CÂU TRỰC TIẾP SANG CÂU GIÁN TIẾP: 1. ‘I couldn’t get into the house because I had lost my key, so I had to brake a window’, he said. 2. ‘The mirror is there so that you can see yourself when you are dancing’, the instructress told him. 3. ‘I wrote to him the day before yesterday. I wonder why he hasn’t rung up’, she said. 4. ‘If the ground is dry on the day of the race, my house might win’, said the owner. 5. ‘You’d better slow down. There’s a speed limit here’, she said to me.

`1,` He said he hadn’t been able to get into the house because he had lost his key.

- could -> had been able 

- Thì quá khứ hoàn thành -> Giữ nguyên

`2,` The instructress told him the mirrow was there so that he could see himself when he was dancing.

- Thì hiện tại đơn -> Thì quá khứ đơn

- can -> could

- Thì hiện tại tiếp diễn -> Thì quá khứ tiếp diễn

`3,` She said she had written to him two days before and wondered why he hadn’t rung up.

- Thì quá khứ đơn -> Thì quá khứ hoàn thành

- The day before yesterday -> Two days before

- Thì hiện tại hoàn thành -> Thì quá khứ hoàn thành

`4,` The owner said if the ground was dry on the day of the race, his house might win.

- Thì hiện tại đơn -> Thì quá khứ đơn

- might -> Giữ nguyên

`5,` She advised me to slow down because there was a speed limit there.

- Thì hiện tại đơn -> Thì quá khứ đơn

- here -> there

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- Câu tường thuật ( Kể ) : S + said ( to O ) / told O + that + S + V ( lùi thì )

- Câu tường thuật ( Nghi vấn ) :

`+` Yes/No : S + asked O + if/whether + S + V ( lùi thì )

`+` Wh-word : S + asked O + Wh + S + V ( lùi thì )

- Câu tường thuật ( Khuyên nhủ ) :

`->` S + advised O + ( not ) to do sth : Khuyên ai ( không ) nên làm gì