【导语】说起直接引语和间接引语，即使再简要的说，也会敲出一堆的文字，什么如何变人称、如何变时态、如何变状语、如何变句型等等。繁多的条条框框，总有记忆疏漏的地方。为学习者提供一个简单快捷的方法，那就是直接记住下面这些句子，因为每一个句子代表了一种情况。只要你牢牢记住下面的句子，那直接引语和间接引语，你也就掌握得差不多了。
1. Mary often says, “I want to be a doctor when I grow up.”
→Mary often says that she wants to be a doctor when she grows up.
2. Mr Smith said, “John is a good student.”
→Mr Smith said that John was a good student.
3. “We will come here again tonight,” the students said to the teacher.
→The students told the teacher that they would go there again that night.
4. He said,“I repaired the watch yesterday.”
→He said that he had repaired the watch the day before.”
5. “I haven’t heard from my parents these days,” he said.
→He said that he hadn’t heard from his parents those days.
6. The children said,“We’ll be back tomorrow.”
→The children said that they would be back the next day.”
7. Bob said to Mary,“I saw the film two days ago.”
→Bob told Mary that he had seen the film two days before.
8. The teacher said,“Can you hear me, children?”
→The teacher asked the children if they could hear him.
9.“We’re going to study in the USA next month,”they said.
→They said that they were going to study in the USA the next month.
10. “I’m checking your homework now,”his mother said.
→His mother said that she was checking his homework then.
11. “The earth goes around the sun,” the teacher said.
→The teacher said (that) the earth goes around the sun.
12.“I can finish it in half an hour,” the worker said to me.
→The worker told me he could finish it in half an hour.
13.“Will you go to the station with me to meet a friend of mine this afternoon?” he asked me.
→He asked me if I would go to the station with him to meet a friend of his that afternoon.
14.“Do you remember what your uncle told you last night?” Li Ping’s father asked him.
→Li Ping’s father asked him if he remembered what his uncle told him the night before.
15.“Why did she refuse to go there?” the teacher asked.
→The teacher asked why she had refused to go there.
16.“Please wait for me at the gate of the Summer Palace at two tomorrow afternoon,” Kate said to her friend.
→Kate asked her friend to wait for her at the gate of the Summer Palace at two the next afternoon.
17.“Are you feeling better today?” the doctor asked my sister.
→The doctor asked my sister if she was feeling better that day.
18. He said to me,“Where did you go last week?”
→He asked me where I had gone the week before.
19. He said,“I joined the English Club in .”
→He said that he joined the English Club in .
20. John said to me,“Where will you go this Sunday?”
→John asked me where I would go that Sunday.
21.She said,“I will come this evening.”
→She said that she would go that evening.
22.“Had you finished your homework before you watched TV?” Kate’s mother asked her.
→Kate’s mother asked her if she had finished her homework before she watched TV.
