talking about the night before.” - Babe, the blue Ox by Paul Bunyan . “Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No. This my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.” Macbeth by William Shakespeare .
“All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.” Animal Farm by George Orwell . “The child is father of the man…” My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold by William Wordsworth . “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts …” As You Like It by William Shakespeare . “Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.” The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel T.
Coleridge . “Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O anything, of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness! Serious vanity! Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms! Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this. Dost thou not laugh?” Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare . “I find no peace, and all my war is done I fear and hope, I burn and freeze like ice, I flee above the wind, yet can I not arise;” Petrarch’s Sonnet by Sir Thomas Wyatt REPORTED SPEECH Let’s study how to report the following.
a. Wh − Questions b. Yes or No questions c. Imperative sentences Grammar 12th Communicative English Book.indb Page i.
Commands ii. Requests iii. Sentences with ‘Let’ d. Sentences with the reporting verbs in the present tense/ future tense a.
Information questions beginning with a question word While reporting - change the pronoun change the word order Ex. “Where are you going?” She asked me where I was going. Ex. “When are they coming?” She asked me when they were coming.
Ex. “Who is that charming lady?” They asked me who that charming lady was.