Quoted & Reported Speech ^.^

Hey Guys,how are you? I hope you always in healthy and happy life. Now, I wanna share to you guys about the theory of reported speech(indirect speech) and quoted speech(direct speech). Hope you like it,enjoy! J

Direct Speech / Quoted Speech & Indirect Speech / Reported Speech

a.  Direct Speech / Quoted Speech à The sentence that re-write what someone’s say and the characteristic of this sentence that we always write with the quotation marks (“…”) on the beginning and end of sentence.For example : Tina said,”I like this strawberry ice cream.” Or “I want to choose this blue jeans”,said Rico.

b.   Indirect Speech/Reported Speech à The sentence that report the someone’s say to other people or to receive the message from someone to other people(from direct speech).The characteristic of this sentence that there is no quotation marks (“…”).For example :

Direct speech = Tina said,”I like this strawberry ice cream.”

Indirect Speech = Tina said thet she like that strawberry ice cream.

·        To change Direct Speech to Indirect speech,we must follow the rule grammar.The table below will showed the rules :

Direct Speech           Indirect Speech

        Simple Present                 Simple Past

        Present Continous             Past Continous

        Present Perfect                 Past Perfect

        Present Perfect                Past Perfect
        Continous                         Continous

        Simple Past                      Past Perfect

        Past Continous                 Past Perfect 
                                                Continous

        Past Perfect                     Past Perfect

        Past Perfect                     Past Perfect
        Continous                         Continous

·        There is also have rules for modal uses in the sentence :

Direct Speech          Indirect Speech

Will                                Would

Can                                 Could

Must                               Had to

Shall                                Should

May                                Might

But there is no change to; could, would, should, might and ought to.

·        This is also the rules for the time uses in the sentence:

Direct Speech           Indirect Speech

This                                   That

Today                             Yesterday

These                                  Those

Now                                   Then

Last weekend             The weekend before/
                                    the previous weekend

Here                                  There

(a week) ago                (a week) before

Tomorrow                 The next/
                      following day

Next (week)              The following (week)

·        The uses for Said, told and asked :

Asked : to report question

Told : With object inside

Said:  Without object inside

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