Om

Swatyast
u

Member Of The Group

DIRECT SPEECH AND

INDIRECT SPEECH
Introduction.
There two ways to convey a message of a
person, or the words spoken by a person to
other person.
1. Direct speech
2. Indirect speech
Suppose your friend whose name is Made
tells you in school, I will give you a pen.
You come to home and you want to tell your
brother what your friend told you. There are
two ways to tell him.
Direct speech: Made said, I will give you a

DIRECT SPEECH
Saying exactly what someone has said is
called direct speech (sometimes called
quoted speech)
Here what a person says appears within
quotation marks ("...") and should be
word for word.
For example:
She said, "Today's lesson is on
presentations."

INDIRECT SPEECH
Indirect speech (sometimes called reported
speech), doesn't use quotation marks to
enclose what the person said and it doesn't
have to be word for word.
When reporting speech the tense usually
changes. This is because when we use
reported speech, we are usually talking about
a time in the past (because obviously the
person who spoke originally spoke in the
past). The verbs therefore usually have to be
in the past too.
For example:
Direct speech

Direct Speech
speech

Indirect

There are 3 changes :

1. Change of Pronoun

e.g:
She said, I make a
cake for my
mother.
She said that she made a
cake for
her mother.

Direct Speech
speech

Indirect

2. Change of Tenses
e.g:
1. Kadek said, I go to Putus house.
Kadek said that he went to Putus
house.
2. Ary said, Ratih went to the party
with her boyfriend.
Ary said that Ratih had gone to the
party
`with her boyfriend.

Direct Speech
speech

Indirect

e.g : 3. nyoman said, I am cuting the

grass
nyoman said that, he was cuting
the
grass
4. Nyoman said, I was a doctor
Nyoman said, that he had been a
doctor.
5. Made said, I will catch you
Made said, that he would catch you

Direct Speech
speech

Indirect

Conclusion:
Present Tense
Past Tense
( V1 )
(V2)
( is/am/are)
(was/were)
Past Tense
Past Perfect Tense
(V2 ) (Had + V3 )
(was/were)
(had been)
will would
Can could

Direct Speech
speech

Indirect

3. Change of adverb time & place

Direct Speech
Here
This
Now
Today
Tonight
Tomorrow
Next week
Yesteday
Last Week
Two days ago

Indirect Speech
There
That
Then
That Day
That Night
The Following day/ The next
day
The following week
The day before/ the
previous day
The week before/ the
previous week

Direct Speech
speech

Indirect

e.g: Ketut said, I went to the hospital

yesterday
ketut said that he had gone to the
hospital
the day before .

Direct Speech
speech

Indirect

In Question Sentence
Question
Statement
1. Yes/No Question
e.g : she asked are you a dancer?
she aksed me if/whether I was a dancer.

Direct Speech
speech

Indirect

2. W/h Question
e.g : komang asked where is the
toilet?
komang asked where the toilet
was.

Direct Speech
speech

Indirect

Command Sentence (!)

e.g: (+) Wayan said Open the door!
Wayan told, to open the door.
Prohibition:
(-) Komang said dont go away!
komang told not to go away.

Quiz
Are the following sentences including
direct or indirect?
1. David said Adrian to wait for him.
Indirect speech
2. Ranta said, I will be there.
Direct speech

Change This Sentence to

Indirect Speech
3. Ibnu said, are you reading comic,
indra?
Ibnu said if Indra was reading comic
4. Lisa said, I met Oka in this place.
Lisa said that she had met Okan in
this place
5. She told me, I can make a cake.
She told that she could make a cake

Change This Sentence To

Direct Speech

6. Ruwaida asked if I really loved her.

Ruwaida asked are you really love
me?
7. Queensa said that she would be a
teacher someday.
Queensa said I wiill be a teacher
8. Genaro said that he was going to have
an interview.
Genaro said I am going to have an
interview

Any Question?

Om Santih,
Santih,
Santih Om