All about Direct indirect (Assertive Sentences)..

1. DIRECT & INDIRECT (ASSERTIVE SENTENCES)
Presented By:
Syed Ibrahim Shams
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2. CONTENT
• Kinds of Sentence
• Assertive Sentence
• Direct & Indirect Sentences
• Rules
• Examples
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3. KINDS OF SENTENCES
Assertive
Sentence
Interrogative
Sentence
Kinds of
Sentence
Imperative
Sentence
Exclamatory
Sentence
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4. ASSERTIVE SENTENCES
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 (.)
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5. DIRECT & INDIRECT SPEECH
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:
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6. RULES (DIRECT & INDIRECT ASSERTIVE SENTENCES)
• ‘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
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7. EXAMPLES (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.
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8. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME
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