有些直接引语可由陈述句+问句、问句+命令句、命令句+陈述句这三种结构组成，或兼有三种句式。

A 通常每一部分都要求有各自的引导动词：

‘I don’t know the way．Do you？’he asked．

他问：“我不知道路。你知道吗？”相当于：

He said he didn’t know the way and asked her if she did／if she knew it．

他说他不知道路并问她是否知道。

‘Someone’s coming，’be said．‘Get behind the screen．’

“有人来了。”他说，“躲到屏风后面去！”相当于：

He said that someone was coming and told me to get behind the screen．

他说有人来了，让我躲到屏风后面去。

I’m going shopping．Can I get you anything？’she said．

她说：“我去买东西。给你捎点什么吗？”相当于：

She said she was going shopping and asked if she could get me anything．

她说她去买东西，并问是否要为我捎点什么。

‘I can hardly hear the radio，’he said．‘Could you turn it up？’

“我几乎听不见广播。”他说，“你能开大点儿声吗？”相当于：

He said he could hardly hear the radio and asked her to turn it up．

他说他几乎听不见广播，还让她开大点儿声。

B有时，后一个从句的内容有助于说明第一句。这里可以用as代替第二个引导动词：

‘You’d better wear a coat．It’ s very cold out，’ he said．

他说：“你最好穿件外衣。外面很冷。”相当于：

He advised me to wear a coat as it was very cold out．

他劝我穿件外衣，因为外面很冷。

‘You’d better not walk across the park alone．People have been mugged¹ there，’ he said．

他说：“你最好不要单独一人从公园里穿行，已有人在那里被抢劫了。”相当于：

He warnd her not to walk across the park alone as people had been muggd there．

他告诫她不要单独一人从公园里穿行。因为已经有人在那里被抢劫了。

C有时第二个引导动词可以是分词：

‘Please，please，don’t drink too much！Remember that you’ll have to drive home，’she said．

她说：“求你了，别喝太多了！别忘了你还得开车回家呢。”相当于：

She begged him not to drink too much，reminding him that he’d have to drive home．

她恳求他别喝太多了，并提醒他还得开车回家。

‘Let’s shop on Friday．The supermarket will be very crowded on Satur－ day，’she said．

她说：“星期五去采购吧，星期六超级市场人太多了。”相当于：

She suggested shopping on Friday，pointing out that the supermarket would be very crowded on Saturday．

她建议星期五去采购，还指出星期六超级市场人太多。

（as在以上两上例句中都可以使用。）