Jumat, 23 November 2012

Direct speech and Indirect speech

I told Mom that I love her forever. 
 Mitha said, "I love mamah forever".
Where do you think the sentence which  direct and indirect.
If you do not understand the point, now we will first discuss the direct and indirect speech.



Direct speech refers to reproducing another person’s exact words or saying exactly what someone has said (sometimes called quoted speech)
Here what a person says appears within quotation marks ("...") and should be word for word.

For example:
She said, "Today's lesson is on presentations."
or
"Today's lesson is on presentations," she said.
•    indirect speech reproducing the idea of another person’s words that doesn’t use question mark to enclose what the person said and it doesn’t have to be word for word. Indirect speech is sometimes called reported speech
For example:
Direct speech :"I'm going to the cinema", he said.
Indirect speech : He said he was going to the cinema.

TENSE CHANGE
•    When reporting speech the tense usually changes. This is because when we use reported speech, we are usually talking about a time in the past (because obviously the person who spoke originally spoke in the past). The verbs therefore usually have to be in the past too.
•    Note : the reporting verbs that are usually used to report imperative sentence are :Tell , other command , ask , warn , remind

Present simple
Past tense
direct         : Vita said “ I eat fried rice”
indirect    :Vita said that  she ate fried rice.

Past simple
Past perfect
direct        : Mother said “ I went to market yesterday”
indirect    : Mother said (that) she had gone to market the day before.

 Future simple
Past future
direct        : Dave said “ I will buy an i-pod next week’
indirect    : Dave said (that) he would buy an i-pod the week after

Present continuous
Past continuous
direct        : Gama said “ I’m playing football”
indirect    : Gama said he was playing football

Past continuous
Past perfect continuous
direct        : She said “ I was teaching earlier”
indirect    : She said she had been teaching earlier

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