Quipperian, belajar bahasa asing memang menyenangkan.

Apalagi kalau bahasa tersebut bisa membuat

nilai diri kita bertambah baik di kehidupan kuliah maupun kerja nanti. Salah satu bahasa asing yang
paling banyak dibutuhkan adalah Bahasa Inggris.

Ada banyak sekali materi yang harus dipelajari jika kamu mau memaksimalkan kualitas Bahasa Inggris
kamu. Salah satu materinya adalah direct speech dan indirect speech . Bahasa Inggris dinarasikan dalam
dua cara, yakni direct speech dan indirect speech. Lalu, sebenarnya apa perbedaan dari kedua cara ini ?
Yuk, simak penjabaran Quipper Video Blog di bawah ini.

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Perbedaan “Direct Speech and Indirect Speech”

Mari, kita simak contoh di bawah ini.

Rumus Perubahan Direct Speech ke Indirect Speech

Ayo Kenali Direct and Indirect Speech Untukmu, Calon Jurnalis!

Peraturan Dasar untuk Indirect Speech

Yuk, Pelajari Contoh-Contoh Soal Direct and Indirect Speech!

Perbedaan “Direct Speech and Indirect Speech”

Tidak jauh berbeda seperti Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Inggris pun punya cara sendiri untuk
mengkomunikasikan sesuatu. Caranya dibedakan dengan kalimat langsung (direct speech) atau kalimat
tidak langsung (indirect speech).

Secara sederhana, kalimat langsung adalah kalimat dialog yang digunakan seseorang saat berbicara
langsung dengan orang lain. Sementara kalimat tidak langsung adalah kalimat dialog yang sudah terjadi
di masa lampau kemudian diceritakan kembali pada orang lain.

Mari, kita simak contoh di bawah ini.

Contoh 1

Direct speech : Mrs. Joana said, “I want to help you.”

Indirect speech : Mrs. Joana said that she wanted to help me.

Contoh 2

Direct speech : Mom said, “I made you a dinner.”

Indirect speech : Mom said that she had made me a dinner.

Contoh 3
Direct speech : She said, “I’m going to the mall.”

Indirect speech : She said that she was going to the mall.

Nah, sampai contoh di atas, apakah kalian sudah mulai mengerti, Quipperian di mana letak perbedaan
direct speech dan indirect speech?

Perbedaan paling utama yang bisa kalian tebak dari dua speech ini adalah, direct speech pasti selalu
menggunakan tanda kutipan seperti (“). Kata-kata langsung oleh pembicara selalu juga dipisahkan
dengan tanda baca koma.

Sementara pada indirect speech, tanda baca koma dan kutipan hilang digantikan kata “that.” Yup,
Quipperian. Dalam indirect speech kata “that” sangat berguna untuk membantu berlangsungnya
kalimat.

Rumus Perubahan Direct Speech ke Indirect Speech

Present Simple Tense → Past Simple Tense

Present Continuous Tense → Past Continuous Tense

Present Perfect Tense → Past Perfect Tense

Present Perfect Continuous Tense → Past Perfect Continuous Tense

Past Simple Tense → Past Perfect Tense

Past Continuous Tense → Perfect Continuous Tense

Past Perfect Tense (tidak berubah)

Past Perfect Continuous Tense (tidak berubah)

Future Simple Tense → “would”

Future Continuous Tense → “would be”

Future Perfect Tense → “would have”

Future Perfect Continuous Tense → “would have been”

Ayo Kenali Direct and Indirect Speech Untukmu, Calon Jurnalis!

Peraturan Dasar untuk Indirect Speech

Berikut ini Quipper Video Blog berikan beberapa peraturan dasar untuk indirect speech ya, Quipperian.
Supaya saat mengerjakan soal nanti kalian bisa dengan mudah mengetahui mana indirect speech dan
mana yang bukan.
1. Selalu ada penggunaan tanda baca koma dan tanda kutipan antara pembicara dengan yang
dibicarakan.

2. Selalu menggunakan kata “that.”

3. Ada perubahan jenis kalimat (lihat rumus perubahan di atas).

4. Ada perubahan subjek.

5. Ada perubahan waktu.

So, Quipperian, bagaimana pembahasan direct speech dan indirect speech di atas? Apakah cukup
membantu kalian? Jangan lupa juga kunjungi

Quipper Video Blog untuk menemukan artikel-artikel menarik lainnya, ya. Keep up the spirit!

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DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH

Direct and indirect speech can be a source of confusion for English learners. Let's first define the terms,
then look at how to talk about what someone said, and how to convert speech from direct to indirect or
vice-versa.

You can answer the question What did he say? in two ways:

by repeating the words spoken (direct speech)

by reporting the words spoken (indirect or reported speech).

DIRECT SPEECH

Direct speech repeats, or quotes, the exact words spoken. When we use direct speech in writing, we
place the words spoken between quotation marks (" ") and there is no change in these words. We may
be reporting something that's being said NOW (for example a telephone conversation), or telling
someone later about a previous conversation.

EXAMPLES

She says, "What time will you be home?"

She said, "What time will you be home?" and I said, "I don't know! "

"There's a fly in my soup!" screamed Simone.

John said, "There's an elephant outside the window."

INDIRECT SPEECH

Reported or indirect speech is usually used to talk about the past, so we normally change the tense of
the words spoken. We use reporting verbs like 'say', 'tell', 'ask', and we may use the word 'that' to
introduce the reported words. Inverted commas are not used.

She said, "I saw him." (direct speech) = She said

that she had seen him . (indirect speech)

'That' may be omitted:

She told him that she was happy. = She told him she was happy.

'SAY' AND 'TELL'

Use 'say' when there is no indirect object:

He said that he was tired.

Always use 'tell' when you say who was being spoken to (i.e. with an indirect object):

He told me that he was tired.

'TALK' AND 'SPEAK'

Use these verbs to describe the action of communicating:

He talked to us.

She was speaking on the telephone.

Use these verbs with 'about' to refer to what was said:

He talked (to us) about his parents.

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Direct and Indirect Speech

English Language has two ways to narrate the spoken-words of a person. These two ways are as follows:
1. Direct Speech

2. Indirect Speech

These two ways are usually used to convey a message (spoken-words) of one person to another person.
For example , you are at your college. Mr. David, who is your teacher, says to you, “I want to meet your
parents’. When you come to home, you will inform your parents in the following two ways:

Direct Speech: Mr. David said, “I want to meet your parents”.

Indirect Speech: Mr. David said that he wanted to meet my parents.

These two ways are also used to simply narrate spoken-words (have no message to convey) of one
person to another. Here is another example . Suppose, you meet your friend, Mr. John, in a market. Mr.
John says to you, “I bought a book for you”. When you come home, you may say the words of Mr. John to
your brother in the following two ways:

Direct Speech: Mr. John said, “I bought a book for you”.

Indirect Speech: Mr. John said that he had bought a book for me.

Direct and Indirect Speech are also called Direct and Indirect Narrations.

Understanding Direct and Indirect Speech - Differences

Direct Speech: In direct speech, the actual words (with no change) of speaker are quoted. The exact
words (or actual words) of the speaker are enclosed in Inverted Commas or Quotation Marks. There is
always a comma or a colon after “said” that introduces the spoken words.

Example: He said, “I am going to School”

Indirect Speech: In indirect speech, the actual words of the speaker are changed. The reason for change
in actual words is that the actual words have been spoken by the speaker in past, hence narrating it in
the present will require change in the tense of the actual words. The pronouns of the sentence are also
changed accordingly.

The words of speaker are not enclosed in inverted commas or quotation marks. The word ‘that’ will be
used before the spoken-words of the speaker.

Example:

Direct Speech: He said, “I am going to School”

Indirect Speech: He said that he was going to school.

Converting Direct speech into Indirect Speech

Before learning the rules for conversion of Direct speech into Indirect Speech, you must learn the
following two components of a sentence of Direct Speech.

Reporting Verb: The verb of the first sentence ( i.e. she said , he said , she says, they said , they say etc.)
before the actual words of the speaker is called a reporting verb.

Examples:

She said , “I am listening to music”.

He says , “You are an intelligent student”.

You will say , “I need your help”.

Reported Speech: The second sentence (actual words of speaker) that is enclosed in Inverted Commas or
Quotation Marks is called a reported speech.

Examples:

He said, “I got a job in college ”

She says, “I want to become a doctor ”

They said, “We play football in the playground ”

Basic Rules For Indirect Speech

Rule No. 1 . Words of the speaker (reported speech) are not enclosed in Inverted Commas or Quotation
Marks in Indirect Speech.

Rule No. 2 . Usage of word “that”: The conjunction “that” is always used between reporting verb and
reported speech in indirect speech.

Example:

Direct Speech: He said, “I write a letter”.

Indirect Speech: He said that he wrote a letter.

Rule No. 3 . Change in tense of the reported speech: A change is made in tense of reported speech for
changing a direct speech into indirect speech. If the reporting verb (or first sentence) of direct speech is
either Present tense or Future tense, no change will be made in the reported speech for making indirect
speech. Only if the reporting verb (or first sentence) of direct speech belongs to the Past tense, changes
will be made in tense reported speech for making indirect speech.

Examples:

Direct Speech: She said , “I am watching a movie”.

Indirect Speech: She said that she was watching a movie . (Tense changed)

Direct Speech: He says , “I am playing cricket”.

Indirect Speech: He says that he is playing cricket . (No change in tense)

Rule No. 4 . Changes In Pronoun: The pronoun (or subject) of reported speech is sometime changed
according to the pronoun (or subject) or Object of the reported verb (first sentence of Direct speech).
The possessive pronouns (i.e. his, her, my, their, your etc) may also change according to subject or object
of the first sentence.

Examples:

Direct Speech: He said, “ I eat two apples”.

Indirect Speech: He said that he ate two apples.

Direct Speech: She said to me, “ I like your book”.

Indirect Speech: She said to me that she liked my book.

Rule No. 5 . Change In Time: If there is time mentioned in the sentence of Direct speech, the time will be
changed in Indirect Speech. There are certain rules changing the time. i.e. not into then, tomorrow into
the next day, today into that day, yesterday into the previous day.

Examples:

Direct Speech: She said, “I am buying a laptop today”.

Indirect Speech: She said that she was buying a laptop that day.

Direct Speech: He said, “I need your now”.

Indirect Speech: He said that he needed my help

then .