Direct vs Indirect Speech & Used to

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

16th of April

Present Perfect Continuous

Recap

Which one is not a PPC

1. I have been talking to you for a while.
2. He hasn't been working lately.
3. They haven't tried to swim for a while.
4. Sam has been driving for the past hour

3 sentences with the PPC +/-/?

Exercises

1) "The film began at seven o'clock," he said.

→ He said

2) "Don't play on the grass, boys," she said.

→ She told the boys

3) "Where have you spent your money?" she asked him.

→ She asked him

4) "I never make mistakes," he said.

→ He said

5)"Does she know Robert?" he wanted to know.

→ He wanted to know

Key

1) "The film began at seven o'clock," he said.

→ He said the film began at seven o'clock

2) "Don't play on the grass, boys," she said.

→ She told the boys not to play on the grass

3) "Where have you spent your money?" she asked him.

→ She asked him where he had spent his money

4) "I never make mistakes," he said.

→ He said he never made mistakes

5)"Does she know Robert?" he wanted to know.

→ He wanted to know if she knew Robert

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Used to/ Would

Page 91 (vwo)
Page 136 (havo)

Examples

Used to / would: action you did in the past

-I would / used to play outside every morning

USED to: something was a fact in the past:
-There used to be a building there

4 sentences, 2 each

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