III. Transform direct speech into reported speech. Pay special attention to place and time expressions.

1. The student said to the lecturer, “I have got most information about exhaustive, algorithmic, pattern-recognition and hypothetico-deductive methods of obtaining a diagnosis from this book.”

2. “If I feel better, I shall attend the lecture on medical diagnosis tomorrow”, said Helen to me.

3. “I felt an acute pain in one half of the head an hour ago. My daughter gave me a pill for headache and now I don’t feel any pain”, said my grandmother to the doctor.

4. “Learning the procedure of pathological and neurological tests today I’ve made some discoveries for myself”, said my younger sister.

5. He said, “I was made electrocardiogram and hydrogen breath test two years ago.”

6. The teacher of English said, “We are having a test on reported speech in a week.”

7. The patient visiting a district doctor complained, “Yesterday I started coughing and had fever and chills.”

8. Examining the patient the doctor said, “I can’t hear any wheezing now.”

9. “In three months you’ll take qualifying examinations for the Candidate’s degree in English and Philosophy”, said the head of post-graduate courses to us.

10. Ann said, “They hospitalized my mother because of knee fracture last month.”

11. The neurosurgeon said, “The day before yesterday we performed cerebrotomy to the patient with a major open skull injury”.

IV. Change the following from indirect speech into direct speech. Pay attention to pronouns, backshift and place and time expressions.

1. The doctor told us that he would discharge our father from the hospital three days later.

2. He said he had been diagnosed asthma the year before.

3. The doctor admitted that the patient’s general condition was extremely grave then.

4. The student promised that the next week he would deliver an interesting report dealing with overdiagnosis, wastebasket diagnosis and mistakes in diagnoses.

5. The physician told us that complete blood count performed two days earlier had revealed elevated ESR, segmentonuclear leukocytes, stab neutrophils and eosinophils.

6. Consulting the neurologist the patient said that the previous night he had been woken experiencing a bomb-like explosion in the back of his head.

7. The doctor told the parents that he would test their child’s reflexes some minutes later.

8. The lecturer told us that we should begin studying techniques to obtain a correct diagnosis a week from then.

9. I told my friend that the preceding month there, at the hospital, it was very interesting and useful for us to watch doctors collect all possible data on the patients’ signs and symptoms, take specific histories, perform physical examinations and finally make diagnoses.