SENTENCE BUILDING: REPORTED SPEECH

WEEK ONE

TOPIC: SENTENCE BUILDING: REPORTED SPEECH

DEFINITION

In indirect or reported speech, what a person said earlier, is reported to someone else without the use of inverted commas.

 EXAMPLE

  1. DANJUMA ASKED ME WHAT the time was
  2. She promised that she would help us
  3. Cynthia shouted at them to go there then

EXAMPLE OF DIRECT SPEECH TO REPORTED SPEECH

  1. Direct: ‘I will help you’, she promised.

Indirect: She promised that she would help us.

 

  1. Direct: “The sun rises in the east,” said Lolade.

Indirect: lolade said that the sun rises in the east.

 

  1. Direct: Alexander asked us, “ Where is Chukwu?”

Indirect: Alexander asked us where Chukwu was.

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