Direct
Speech adalah kalimat yang diucapkan langsung dari si
pembicara. Kalimat
tersebut tidak diubah atau ditambah.
Indirect
Speech adalah kalimat yang berasal dari kalimat langsung yang
diceritakan
kembali dalam bentuk yang lain.
Catatan :
Jika Kata Kerja dalam induk kalimat bentuknya adalah PRESENT
dan PRESENT PERFECT
atau adanya suatu keterangan yang umum pada induk kalimat,
maka tidak ada
perubahan waktu dalam Kalimat tidak langsung.
Contoh:
-Simple
Present menjadi Simple Past
a He told me, “I go to
work everyday.”
b. He told me that he went to work everyday.
-Present
Continuous menjadi Past Continuous
a. She told me, “I am playing music now”.
b. She told me that she was playing music then.
-Present
Perfect menjadi Past Perfect
a. They told me. “We have bought a car”.
b. They told me that they had bought a car.
-Simple
Past menjadi Past Perfect
a. He told me, “I went to Bandung yesterday”.
b. He told me that he had gone to Bandung yesterday.
-Simple
Future menjadi Future Past
a. He told me, “I will go to university next year”.
b. He told me that he would go to university the following
year.
-Future
Past menjadi Future Past Perfect
a. She told me, “I should go there if I were you.”
b. She told me that she would have gone there if she had been
me.
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