Active And Passive Voice Flashcards

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1
Q

Rules in punctuation of direct speech?

A
  1. the words actually spoken should be in (“ ”)
    quotes and always begin with a capital letter.

Period, comma, exclamation or question mark are placed inside
the quotation marks.

If the quoted part comes first, use a comma before the
introductory part.

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2
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Rules in verb tense?

A

Use the tense in the original direct speech clause when stating
facts, general rules, habits, and actions in progress.

The quoted text becomes more past in indirect speech

Future tense will is simoly replaced with would

Past perfect progressive has no change

Simple past - past perfect
Past progressive - past perfect progressive

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Rule in pronouns

I
We
My
Your
Our
Me
US

A

1st person is turned into 3rd person

He/She
They
His/Her
My
Their
Him/Her
Them

No need to change if its already thurs perspj

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Rules in time

Here
Today
Now
This/These
This morning
Yesterday
Tomorrow
Next week/month

A

There
That day
Then
That/Those
That morning
The day before
The next day
The following week/month

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Interrogative Sentence

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  • sentences sking a question
  • that will not be used
  • for yes and no questions “ if” or “ whether” will be used in indirect.
  • for wh- questions simply use te assertive form after the reporting veryb
  • use asked instead of told or said
  • questions marks will not be used in indirect speech
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