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Materi Direct Dan Indirect Speech

The document discusses direct and indirect speech. Direct speech uses quotation marks and maintains the same tenses, while indirect speech does not use quotation marks and changes tenses based on the rules described. It provides examples of changing direct speech to indirect speech for statements, imperative sentences, interjection sentences, questions, and changing verb tenses. Guidelines are given for changing time and place references as well as examples of direct to indirect speech conversions.

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Materi Direct Dan Indirect Speech

The document discusses direct and indirect speech. Direct speech uses quotation marks and maintains the same tenses, while indirect speech does not use quotation marks and changes tenses based on the rules described. It provides examples of changing direct speech to indirect speech for statements, imperative sentences, interjection sentences, questions, and changing verb tenses. Guidelines are given for changing time and place references as well as examples of direct to indirect speech conversions.

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DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH

By : Sitta Maisyaroh
DIRECT SPEECH

Using Quotation marks ( “ … “ )


INDIRECT SPEECH
Based on tenses

Without comma ( , )
Based on tenses

Example :
Direct : Yani said, “ I will give you a pen”
Indirect : Yani said that she would give me a pen.
To+Invinitiv
e Imperative/
Interdiction
sentence

How to change
Direct to Indirect ?

The statement
That

Wh + The question
Question
a. Imperative / Interdiction sentence

• Imperative sentence

Direct : Dinda asked me, “ Open the door “


Indirect : Dinda asked me to open the door.

• Interdiction sentence

Direct : Dinda asked me, “ don’t open the door “


Indirect : Dinda asked me not to open the door.

b. The Statement
Direct : Sari said, “ I will go to Jakarta”
Indirect : Sari said that she would go to Jakarta.

c. The Question

Direct : Mr. Adam asked me, “ where do you live?”


Indirect : Mr. Adam asked me where I lived.
How to change tenses in Direct to Indirect?

Simple
Simple Past
Present
(V2)
( V1)

Present Past
Continuous Continuous
(Tobe (Tobe
am/is/are + was/were+
Ving) Ving)

Present
Past Perfect
Perfect
(Had+V3)
(Have+V3)
Present Past Perfect
Perfect Continuous
Continuous (Had+been+V
(Have+been+ ing)
Ving)

Simple
Past Future
Future
(Would+V1)
(Will+V1)

Future Past Future


Continuous Continuous
(Will+be+Ving) (Would+be+Ving)
Time & Place

Direct – Indirect

Now > then


Next week > the following week
Tomorrow > the following day
Last night > that night
1. Direct : “He said, “ I work in a Bank”
2. Direct : Aria said, “I will give you a book”
3. Direct : He asked, “ Open your package”
4. Direct : My mother asked me, “ where are you last
night?”
5. Direct : they said, “ we are going to the beach”
6. Direct : I said, “John has been waiting for you”
7. Direct : My father told me, “ Don’t came home late”
1. Indirect : He said that he worked in a Bank
2. Indirect : Aria said that he would give me a book
3. Indirect : He asked to open my package
4. Indirect : My mother asked me where was I that night
5. Indirect : They said that they were going to the beach
6. Indirect : I said that John had been waiting for you
7. Indirect : My father told me not to came home late

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