Kamis, 17 Februari 2011

Direct and Indirect speech

Ditha said 'that's cool'
'that's cool ' Ditha said
this is one of most example of direct and indirect speech.
for more details, you can see this post

'Direct Speech refers to reproducing another person’s exact words or saying exactly what someone has said (sometimes called quoted speech).We use quotation marks (“______________”) and it should be word for word.
For example:
 Nova said, “It’s delicious”.
Or
“It’s delicious,” Nova said.
 
Indirect speech refers to reproducing the idea of another person’s words that doesn’t use quotation marks to enclose what the person said and it doesn’t have to be word for word.
Indirect speech is sometimes called reported speech.
The tense usually changes when reporting speech. This is because we are usually talking about a time in the past and obviously the person who spoke originally spoke in the past.
The verbs therefore usually have to be in the past too.

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