Chapter 25 Noun Clauses and Reported Speech continued

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Chapter 25 Noun Clauses and Reported Speech
(continued)

• Wednesday, April 16, 2008

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Included questions

• When a question is included within a statement,
  it loses question punctuation and question word
  order.

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• Should I apply for this job or the other one?
• I dont know whether (if) I should apply for this
  job or the other one.
• What are they doing?
• I dont know what they are doing.

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• Where does she live?
• I cant remember where she lives.
• Why did he say that?
• I couldnt understand why he said that.

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• Is she working?
• I dont know whether (if) she is working.
• I dont know whether or not she is working.
• I dont know whether she is working or not.

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• How terrible is your boss?
• He told me how terrible his boss was.
• He told me that how terrible his boss was. (wrong)

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Exercise 4 (p. 281)

• Oral responses

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Verb form in noun clauses after insist, suggest,
etc.

• In noun clauses introduced by that after verbs
  like insist, suggest, request, demand, and
  recommend, use the simple form of the verb,
  regardless of the subject.

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• The minister insisted that his visitor (should)
  wait outside.
• The visitor demanded that the minister (should)
  let him in.
• The secretary recommended that he (should) not
  get too excited.
• The visitor insisted that he (should) be
  admitted.

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Edit (p. 284)

• Teacher Wu asked him if his mother was a pianist.
  He answered that she had been a pianist but that
  now she played the harpsichord. Then she asked
  him if he knew what a piano should sound like and
  that if he had grown up hearing a piano every day
  and he answered yes.

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Friday

• Quiz on Chap. 25