Урок 48. Косвенные команды и так далее. Lesson 48. Indirect Commands, etc.

An indirect command, advice or wish involves more than one subject and verb: Person A wants/commands person B to do something: I want him to go home; They ordered him to go home. In Russian the word чтобы, followed by the past tense (either imperfective or perfective), is used in indirect commands/wishes (this is also known as the subjunctive).

Урок 47. Косвенная речь и вопрос. Lesson 47. Indirect Speech and Question.

Indirect statements are reports of what people have said or asked: He said he was going to St Petersburg; He asked if I was going to Moscow.

(A) In English there is a change of the tense of verb between direct and indirect statement:

In direct speech	‘I am going to St Petersburg’ he said.
In indirect speech	He said he was going to St Petersburg.
In direct speech	'I will go to St Petersburg' he said.
In indirect speech	He said he would go tu St Petersburg.
In direct speech	'He has already gone to St Petersburg’ we said.
In indirect speech	We said that he had already gone to St Petersburg.