Question

Найдите ошибки в предложении. The instructor asked me if I can swim and I said I can. He said me that he had been waiting for me here. She asked me where I had lived two years ago. Mr. Grey told that he missed his hometown. The man asked the boy to tell him what is the time. He wanted to know why Bob is missing a class today. He asked me if Ted had been sick yesterday.

Answer 1

Ответ:

1. The instructor asked me if I could swim and I said I could.

(Согласование времен: can переходит в could).

2. He said to me that he had been waiting for me there.

или

He told me that he had been waiting for me there.

(Нельзя сказать said me, либо said to me, либо told me. Here переходит в косвенной речи в there).

3. She asked me where I had lived two years before.

(Ago переходит в before).

4. Mr. Grey said that he missed his hometown.

или

Mr. Grey told [someone] that he missed his hometown.

(После глагола tell всегда должно быть указано кому. Вместо someone тут можно поставить me/us/him/het/them и т.д., то есть любое местоимение или существительное. После said писать, кому адресованы слова, необязательно).

5. The man asked the boy to tell him what the time was.

(Когда мы передаем вопрос, порядок слов после вопросного слова (здесь: what) становится, как в утвердительном предложении, а еще в косвенной речи мы все сдвигаем на время назад, поэтому is переходит в was).

6. He wanted to know why Bob was missing a class that day.

(Согласование времен: is переходит в was; today  в косвенной речи меняется на that day).

7. He asked me if Ted had been sick the day before.

(Yesterday меняется на the day before или the previous day).

Answer 2

The instructor asked me if I can swim, and I said I can. He told me that he had been waiting for me here. She asked me where I had lived two years ago. Mr. Grey said that he missed his hometown. The man asked the boy to tell him what the time is. He wanted to know why Bob is missing a class today. He asked me if Ted had been sick yesterday.

Errors in the sentence: 1. "He said me that he had been waiting for me here." - The correct form is "He told me that he had been waiting for me here." 2. "Mr. Grey told that he missed his hometown." - The correct form is "Mr. Grey said that he missed his hometown." 3. "The man asked the boy to tell him what is the time." - The correct form is "The man asked the boy to tell him what the time is."

Other sentences do not have any errors.