♫♪ dã®âdírìdâ®ãddûe ♪♫: English Lesson

♫♪ dã®âdírìdâ®ãddûe ♪♫: English Lesson: DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH DIRECT SPEECH CHARACTERISTICS: It is original quotation of a talk It is always placed between two quot...

DIRECT and DIRECT SPEECH

DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH

DIRECT SPEECH

CHARACTERISTICS:

• It is original quotation of a talk
• It is always placed between two quotation marks
• It is always preceded by Capital letter
• Colon (:), Comma (,) are placed before direct speech when the introductory verb position is in the front
• Comma (,) are placed after direct speech when the introductory verb position is placed after or between the direct speech
• The use of punctuation like exclamation mark (!), question mark (?) that point type of sentence of direct speech do not change

Eg.

- ‘Where do you live?’ she asked

- My mother says to my sister: ‘Wash your hands!’

- She yelled at me: ‘Don’t have the door open!’