EG ONE 5TH ENTRY

Direct and Indirect speech



Hello there guys, as you know we've been talking about direct and indirect speech in our high intermediate english course, therefore i had decided to give us a little feedback, so we can solve our doubts and clarify some aspects about this topic that were't clear.

Since we're talking about speech, it is necessary to understand that DS and IS  might seem similar in some way, which sometimes would be kind of tricky for us, when we manage to spot them either in senteces or compound structures such as paragraphs, due to this issues with this topic i did a reasearch on it and i found this website www.english4today.com which helped me to finally understand  the following:

DS (Direct Speech) is when we quote the exact words that a third person said, for instance:
  • Dan said, " PLEASE LEAVE MY ROOM!"
As you can notice on the previous example, when we refer to what someone said in direct speech, we use quotation marks ("...") to emphasize what a person said, and is common to put a comma before the quote, this should help you to identify  them


IS (Indirect Speech) is when we talk refering to what someone said in the past , for example:
  • Dan told me to leave his room
Opposite to the DS, the example shows that we have to do changes in the structure of the sentece when its reported, as you can realize, we don't use either commas or quotation marks when we report, so this could be a tool  that may help to spot them.


Well guys that's all for today i really encourage you to  visit this website, it may be help you, as it helped to me, by the way here are some exercises about this, so first read the information on the site then try to solve them www.ego4u.com, good luck guys.

See ya!



Comments

  1. Andrea SuárezOctober 8, 2017 at 7:34 AM

    Hi Diego! very nice entry and helpful too. For me the D.E and I.E. are very simple because there's no other way to do it (isn't?), it is just like a formula, perphaps I have a question; is it the same as the reported speech or not?

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  2. UnknownOctober 8, 2017 at 6:05 PM

    Hello Diego!!
    I liked your post, the information about IS and DS has been really useful for me because although we had seen this topic before I still had some doubt about them, because for me at the beginning was difficult to understand their differences in use but let me told you that thank to your post I already know that the DS is used to express the exact words that someone has spoken, and the IS is used to talk about the past and quotation and commas are not use in the IS, but is it possible to use the verb “tell” in DS?
    Thanks you!! I hope you could have an excellent week!!

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  3. UnknownOctober 8, 2017 at 9:52 PM

    Hi Diego!
    First thing first, nice post. Like they say "we learn something new everyday" today I learnt the acronyms DS and IS. For me is easy, as Andrea said. But I have a question: what other verbs can be used for the IS?

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  4. UnknownOctober 9, 2017 at 8:50 PM

    Hello Diego!
    Great job, to be honest I didn't understand very well that topic in English:(, but now you had the excellent idea to explain us <3 (Thanks a lot)
    But just a doubt, Can we change the verb before I.S or D. S to present or just in the pass?

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  5. UnknownOctober 9, 2017 at 9:50 PM


    Hello my good friend Diego, good definition and interpretation of how you have shown us the use and definition of DS and IS.
    With all this we can understand that when we want to communicate or report what another person has said, there are two ways to do it: using the DS or IS.
    Now I understand that with the DS is placed what the person has said in quotation marks ("...") and should be word for word, whereas with the DS is not used quotes and does not need to be word for word. In general, when indirect style is used, the verb tense changes.
    I think I could get a good definition of your presentation on Direct Speech and Indirect Speech, thanks again for your contribution.

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  6. UnknownOctober 9, 2017 at 10:04 PM

    Hello my friend! What a nice blog :3 reported speech is one of the most difficult topics to learn in english and is even worst when you have to use the indirect reported speech because you need to change pronouns and the verb tense. Thanks for the useful information you shared with us. It helped me to refresh my knowledge about this. I just have a question. Which is better to use, direct or indirect speech?

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  7. UnknownOctober 10, 2017 at 6:02 AM

    Hello Diego!

    Thanks you so much! I really liked your post, because your information is very clear and useful.

    It has helped me to improve my learning about the direct and indirect speech usage, specially when to use "say" and when to use "tell", they are really important to know.

    I just have a doubt: Are there more verbs like: say, tell,speak and talk, to report and idea ?

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