TAILIEUCHUNG - A complete English language course part 11

The important thing to remember is that English spelling does have a system - it isn't com¬pletely illogical. It's just that the system is sometimes a bit more complicated than you might expect, and there are a lot of apparent exceptions to rules. | 84 --------------------------------------------------------------- In American English people use this for both people and say Who is this If the phone is answered by someone other than the person you want to speak to say Could I speak to . or Is . there please To tell the other person who you are say It s . or It s . speaking If the person you want to speak to isn t there you can say either OK I ll phone again later or Could you get him her to phone me back You can use ring instead of phone in these two sentences as well. If someone phones you and asks to talk to someone else they might say Is . . . there or Could I speak to . . . and you can say Can I ask who s calling They will say Yes it s . Exercise 1 Match the halves of the sentences to make phrases for phone conversations. 1 Who am I a ask who s calling 2 Who is b there 3 Can I c speaking to 4 Is Miranda d her to phone back 85 5 It s Adrian e John Smith 6 Could you get f that 7 Is that g back later. 8 I ll ring h speaking. Language point 36 - direct and indirect objects In Dialogue 1 Vicki says to Dave Can you give me his number We have already seen Unit 1 that the personal pronouns have subject forms I he she etc. and object forms me him her etc. . In English the object pronouns can also include the meaning to me to me you to you her to her him to him In this meaning we call them indirect object pronouns. You will see them with verbs such as give - here are some examples Give me the tickets please Can you give her the books In the first example the tickets is the direct object the things being given and me is the indirect object the person the tickets are given to . Notice that we place the indirect object pronouns before the direct object not after Give me the tickets please not Give the tickets me please And we can put nouns and names in this special position Give Dave the tickets to Dave Give the ticket collector the tickets to the ticket collector 86 But in all these cases if we use the word to we have

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