Diret And I Direct Speech Flashcards

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Direct speech

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  • repeating someones exact words
  • more emotional
  • better portrayal of the character’s tone and mood
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indirect speech

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Indirect speech
- generalized of what a person said
- less emotional and more informative
- creates distance reader and the charactee
- less personal

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Rules in punctuation

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  • 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.
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Rules in verb tenses

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  • 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
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Rules in pronounce

I
We
My
Your
Our
Me
US

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

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Rules in time

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

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  • change quoted part to

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

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Interrogative sentences

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  • 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
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rules in imperative sentences

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  • 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
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