Diret And I Direct Speech Flashcards
1
Q
Direct speech
A
- repeating someones exact words
- more emotional
- better portrayal of the character’s tone and mood
2
Q
indirect speech
A
Indirect speech
- generalized of what a person said
- less emotional and more informative
- creates distance reader and the charactee
- less personal
3
Q
Rules in punctuation
A
- In direct speech, 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.
4
Q
Rules in verb tenses
A
- quoted part becomes past or more past
- if its pastperfect retain
- if its will change to would
- if its past timple change into past perfect
- past progressive to past perfect progressive
5
Q
Rules in pronounce
I
We
My
Your
Our
Me
US
A
He/She
They
His/Her
My
Their
Him/Her
Them
6
Q
Rules in time
Here
Today
Now
This/These
This morning
Yesterday
Tomorrow
Next week/month
A
- change quoted part to
There
That day
Then
That/Those
That morning
The day before
The next day
The following week/month
7
Q
Interrogative sentences
A
- the quoted part is a question
- we dont use that
- yes or no questions use if or whether
- for wh- questions simoly used asked… ect
- question mark will not be used in indirect
- say or tell will turn into ask or inquire
8
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rules in imperative sentences
A
- command verbs in the quoted pars will turn as requested, suggested, forbade, advised
- use to as conjunction
- please will get omitted and replaced into requested