要点精析
Ⅰ. 基本概念
直接引用别人的原话，并把它放在引号内, 这叫直接引语；用自己的话来转述别人说的话，并且不能用引号，这叫间接引语。直接引语和间接引语之间可以相互转换。
Ⅱ. 直接引语转换成间接引语时，需要注意以下变化。
1.句子结构的变化
（1）直接引语是陈述句，变为间接引语时由that引导宾语从句，that也可以省略。
He said, “My father never talks much about the war.”
→He said that his father never talked much about the war.
She said, “Our bus will arrive in five minutes.”
→She said that their bus would arrive in five minutes.
（2）直接引语是一般疑问句、选择疑问句或反意疑问句，变为间接引语时由if或whether引导宾语从句。大多数情况下if和whether可以互换，但后面有or （not）时，一般只用whether。
He asked me, “Do you like playing football?”
→He asked me if/whether I liked playing football.
He asked, “Do you speak English or French？”
→He asked me whether I spoke English or French.
“You have finished the homework, haven’t you?” my mother asked.
→My mother asked me whether I had finished the homework （or not）.
（3）直接引语是特殊疑问句，变为间接引语时由相应的特殊疑问词引导宾语从句，从句用陈述句语序。
He asked me, “What do you want to eat tonight?”
→He asked me what I wanted to eat that night.
（4）直接引语是祈使句, 变为间接引语时用ask/tell/order sb. （not） to do sth. 句式。“Don’t make any noise,” she said to the children.
→She told/ordered the children not to make any noise.
“Make good use of your time,” he said.
→He told me to make good use of my time.
