Direct indirect (Assertive Sentences)

Presented By:Syed Ibrahim Shams

DIRECT & INDIRECT (ASSERTIVE SENTENCES)

13 Jan, 2014 1Direct & Indirect (Assertive Sentences)

• Kinds of Sentence

• Assertive Sentence

• Direct & Indirect Sentences

• Rules

• Examples

CONTENT


KINDS OF SENTENCES

Kinds of Sentence


A simple statement can be called an Assertive Sentence.

It is also known as Declarative, Statement or Affirmative Sentence.

An assertive sentences denotes statements, declarations and facts.

Example:– The Earth is round.– Fehmida is not our teacher

Clue: These sentences ends with full stop (.)

ASSERTIVE SENTENCES


There are two ways of making a report. If it consists of the actual words of the speaker it is in the Direct Speech,

But if it does not consist of the actual words of the speaker – and only conveys the full sense of what he said – it is in the Indirect Speech.

Example:– The doctor said to me, “I am too busy to test your eyes just

now.” :Direct Sentence:– The doctor said to me that he was too busy to test my eyes just then.

:Indirect Sentence:

DIRECT & INDIRECT SPEECH


• ‘This’ is changed into ‘That’

• ‘These’ into ‘Those’

• ‘Here’ into ‘There’

• ‘Now’ into ‘Then’

• ‘Today’ into ‘That Day’

• ‘Tonight’ into ‘That Night’

• ‘Yesterday’ into ‘The Previous Day’

• ‘Tomorrow’ into ‘The Next Day’

• ‘Sir/Madam’ into ‘Respectfully’

• ‘Respectfully/Good Morning/Good Evening’ into ‘Greeted’ etc

RULES (DIRECT & INDIRECT ASSERTIVE SENTENCES)


• I said to him, “These books are mine.”– I said to him that those books were mine.

• He said to her, “I live here.”– He said to her that he lived here.”

• She said to her teacher, “Sir, it is hot.”– She said to her teacher respectfully that it was hot.

• The teacher said, “You are again late today, Yahya.”– The teacher said to Yahya that he was again late that day.

EXAMPLES (DIRECT & INDIRECT ASSERTIVE SENTENCES)


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