Englishmylanguage: Direct and Indirect Speech

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Direct and Indirect Speech

Post your doubts relating to Direct and Indirect Speech

7 comments:

Sandhya Natuva said...: Please tell me for which reporting versbs that is necessary for which it is not necessary and what are all situations; September 26, 2009 at 11:30 PM
nancy said...: One source says, "the conjuction 'that' is usually not used, unless it is needed to emphasise what is being reported"; October 5, 2009 at 11:34 AM
nancy said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; October 5, 2009 at 11:35 AM
nancy said...: another source puts "indirect questions are introduced without 'that'."; October 5, 2009 at 11:35 AM
nancy said...: There might be a list of Verbs which need to be followed by 'that'. Give me time to look for it; October 5, 2009 at 11:38 AM
Sandhya Natuva said...: you told "for the word said that is required only in few situations and in all situation that is not required" what are all the situations give me some examples on this.

Please don't delay to reply

Thanksinadvance,; October 5, 2009 at 9:09 PM
nancy said...: a) After verbs like learned, discovered, found (out), knew, felt, thought, it is quite natural to omit that, especially in informal speech:

E.g. I knew he had borrowed my car without my permission.

b) After the more common reporting verbs, (e.g. say, tell) we can leave out "that" in informal speech:

E.g. I told him I'd be back by nine o'clock but he said he needed me here by nine.

c) After certain verbs (e.g. replied, shouted) that cannot be omitted and it is not normally dropped after nouns:

E.g. The Head of the Institution informed us that the science block was going to close.

E.g. He left a message on my voice mail that he was waiting for me there.; January 25, 2010 at 1:01 PM

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