Direct-Indirect Speech Bahasa Inggris
Direct-Indirect Speech Bahasa Inggris
DIRECT SPEECH
Direct speech adalah kalimat langsung/kutipan asli suatu pembicaraan tanpa adanya suatu perubahan. Penulisan direct speech selalu diapit oleh tanda kutip dan kalimat selalu diawali huruf kapital.
- INDIRECT SPEECH
Indirect speech adalah kalimat tidak langsung/ bentuk kalimat yang menceritakan kembali pendapat/ pembicaraan seseorang yang mengalami modifikasi tertentu. Terdapat tiga jenis Indirect Speech:
- Kalimat Berita/Pernyataan (declarative/
statement)
- Direct : He says: ‘I go to school everyday.’ Indirect : He says that he goes to school
everyday.
- Direct : Doni said: ‘I am doing my job here
now.’
Indirect : Doni said that he was doing his job
there then.
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Catatan:
– Kedua bentuk mempunyai arti yang sama.
– Kalau induk kalimatnya present, anak kalimat-
nya tidak ada perubahan tenses, yang ber-
ubah hanya kata ganti (pronoun) dan kata
keterangan (adverbial).(Lihat contoh a)
– Kalau induk kalimatnya past, anak kalimatnya
ada perubahan tenses, pronoun, dan
adverbial. (Lihat contoh b)
- Kalimat Perintah (imperative/command/request)
- Positive Imperative
Direct : Doni said: ‘Close the door!’
Indirect : Doni asked me to close the door.
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- Negative Imperative
Direct : Doni said: ‘Don’t close the door!’
Indirect : Doni asked me not to close the door.
Asked Me
Doni
Told Him
Commanded Joko
Ordered The boy
Not To Close the door
- Kalimat Tanya (interogative/question)
- Tanpa kata tanya
Direct : Doni asked: ‘Do you know Stephen
Covey?’
Indirect : Doni asked if (whether) I knew
Stephen Covey.
Doni |
asked |
If/ whether |
I |
knew |
Stephen Covey |
wondered | |||||
wanted to know | |||||
inquired |
Catatan:
Kalimat tanya tanpa kata dapat dijawab: ‘Yes, I do’
atau ‘No, I don’t’.
- Dengan kata tanya
Direct : Doni asked: Who is Stephen Covey?’
Indirect : Doni asked who Stephen Covey is.
Doni |
Asked |
Me |
who |
Stephen Covey |
is |
Him | |||||
Her | |||||
Joko | |||||
The Girl | |||||
wanted to know |
who |
Stephen
Covey |
is |
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about | Stephen Covey | ||||
inquired | about | Stephen Covey |
Catatan:
Semua kata tanya dapat dipergunakan (who,
whom, whose, what, which, why, where, when,
how)
- PERUBAHAN TENSES
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