Reporting Orders and Requests

Reporting Orders and Requests

*The steps of changing orders or requests from direct to indirect:

1-Said to ---------------told/ordered/advised/warned/asked

2-Omit the inverted commas and use (to+inf.+....... .)But If it is negative ,use (not to+inf. ......... .).If you found (please),omit it.

3-No backshift of tenses but don't forget to change pronouns and expressions of time and place

EX:She said to me,"Open the door,please."(direct)
She told me to open the door.(indirect)

EX:He said to her ,"Don't give me your telephone number."
He warned her not to give him her telephone number.

*The requests have two ways to change from direct to indirect:

EX:He said to me,"Can you lend me your camera?"(direct)
-He asked me to lend him my camera.(indirect)

Or we consider it as a question as follows:

-He asked me If I could lend him my camera.(indirect)

EX:He said to her,"May I open the window ,please?"(direct)
-He asked her to open the window.(indirect)
Or
-He asked her If he might open the window.(indirect)