Transcript Direct Speech

Welcome
Md. Harun or Rashid
Assistant Head Teacher
Baruakhali High School
Nababgonj, Dhaka
Class: IX
English 2nd paper
Changing Speech.
There are two kinds of narration
Narration
(Speech)
1. Direct Narration
2. Indirect Narration
Direct: mivmwi/ e³vi e³e¨ ûeû cÖKvwkZ/ cÖZ¨ÿ
Indirect: mivmwi bq Ggb/ e³vi e³e¨ cwiewZ©Z n‡q
cÖKvwkZ/ c‡ivÿ
Example:
Direct Speech:
Rahim said to me, “I hate you.”
Indirect Speech:
Rahim said to me that he hated me.
Name of the different parts of
a direct speech
Rahim said to Karim, “I hate you.”
Reporting speech
Reported speech
Subject
Verb
Object
How to change
Direct speech to Indirect speech
1. Read the Reported Speech and identify the types of
sentence.
2. Reporting verb will change according to the types of
sentence.
3. Inverted Comma (“__”) will be omitted.
4. A suitable connective will be used.
5. Subject and object of the reported speech will be
changed.
6. Tense/verb will be changed.
7. Some words will be changed.
Reporting verb changing
(depends on the kinds of speech’s sentence)
Types of Speech
1. Assertive
2. Interrogative
3. Imperative
4. Optative
5. Exclamatory
Changing Reporting verb
said / told (object)
asked
ordered/requested
/advised/forbade
wished/ prayed
exclaimed
Various connectives
Types of sentences Connectives
Assertive
Interrogative
Imperative
optative
exclamatory
that
If/whether/wh-word
(when/where/how etc)
To/that
that
that
Change of subject
& object
Person
According to
1st person
Subject of the reporting verb
2nd person
Object of the reporting verb
3rd person
Remains unchanged.
Change of tense/verbs
1. am/is/are ------- was/were
2.Present form ---------past form
3. have/has----------had
4.do/does--------did
5. can------could
Will/shall--------would/should
May----- might
Must----had to
Did/past form ------had+past participle
Change of some words
Now-------then
Today-------that day
Yesterday-------the previous day/the day before
Tomorrow------the next day/the following day
Here------there
Come------go
This/these------that/those
Changing speech of assertive sentences
1. Reporting verb ‘said’ remains
unchanged. You may use tell/told
instead.
2. As a connector ‘that’ should be used in
place of comma and inverted commas.
3. Subject, verb and object should be
changed accordingly.
examples
Direct speech
He said to me, “I am playing ball.”
Indirect speech
He said to me that
he
was playing ball.
Reported
speech
Reporting speech
evaluation
Change the speeches.
1.He said to me, “I have bought a book.”
2.I said to you, “You are my friend.”
3.The man said to me, “I live in Dhaka”
4.We said to him, “You will do the work.”
5.The boy said, “I am eating rice”
answers
1.He said to me that he had bought a book.
2.I said to you that you were my friend.
3. The man said to me that he lived in
Dhaka .
4. We told him that he would do the work.
5. The boy said that he was eating rice.
Home task
Change the following speeches.
He said to me, “I saw your father yesterday.”
The boy said to you, “I learn my lessons every day.”
Father said to me, “You are wasting your time.”
The teacher said to the student, “You should attend
your classes regularly.”
5. I said to him, “The sun rises in the east.”
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Thanks