Direct and Indirect Sentences: Definition, Characteristics, Differences and Examples

Direct and Indirect Sentences: Definition, Characteristics, Differences and Examples - What are Direct Sentences and Indirect Sentences? On this occasion About the knowledge.co.id will discuss both. Let's look at the discussion together in the article below to better understand it.

Direct and Indirect Sentences: Definition, Characteristics, Differences and Examples

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In a conversational dialogue sentence, the terms direct and indirect sentences are known. Examples of direct and indirect sentences are very numerous and we often use them in everyday life. We will discuss them one by one because surely many do not understand the meaning of these two sentences

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Direct sentence

Direct speech is a sentence that is said directly or quoted directly from a conversation that has the same form and content of the sentence exactly "without the slightest change" as conveyed, the hallmark of direct speech is that it begins and ends with a quotation mark (“…”).

Direct speech is a sentence that is the result of a direct quote from someone's speech that is exactly the same as what he said.

Characteristics of direct speech

• In direct speech, the imperative sentence is marked with quotation marks.
• The first letter in the quoted sentence is capitalized.
• Excerpts and accompanying sentences are separated by a comma (,).
• Direct sentences in the form of sequential dialogue must use a colon (:) in front of the direct sentence.
• Layout pattern:
  • Accompaniment, “quote”
  • “quote,” accompaniment
  • “quote,” accompaniment, “quote”
• How to read the sentence quotation intonation slightly emphasized.

How to write direct sentences

Companion-quote arrangement

• If the quote is at the beginning of the sentence, enter the opening quotation mark and write the quote beginning with a capital letter.
• Add a full stop, exclamation point or question mark at the end of the quote.
• Put a closing quotation mark at the end of the quote.
• Follow with a space.
• Enter the accompaniment without commas and capital letters.
• End the accompaniment with a period.

Example: "What should I do?" muttered Ratu Gading Mas.

Arrangement of quotations

• If the quote is at the end of the sentence, write the accompaniment first like writing a normal sentence.
• Insert a comma before adding the quote.
• Insert a space.
• Include an opening quotation mark and start the quote with a capital letter.
• Add a full stop, exclamation point or question mark at the end of the quote.
• Put a closing quotation mark at the end of the quote.

Example: Then the Queen said to her bodyguard, "Send the two women to face me!"

List of quotes, accompaniments and more quotes.

• Repeat how to write direct sentences that are in the accompaniment-quotation arrangement, but don't put a full stop after the accompaniment.
• Put a comma after the accompaniment.
• Insert a space
• Include an opening quotation mark but do not capitalize the quote.
• Add a full stop, exclamation point or question mark at the end of the quote.
• Put a closing quotation mark at the end of the quote.

Example: "Wait!" shouted the queen's adviser, "we better investigate the problem first."

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Indirect Sentences

Indirect sentences are sentences that are quoted from a conversation or someone's speech and have changed the form of the sentence but do not change the content. This means that this indirect sentence contains the same information as conveyed by the source but only the sentence structure is different.

Characteristics of Indirect Sentences

Following are some of the characteristics of indirect sentences, consisting of:

• Do not use quotation marks.
• Flat reading intonation, not much different between the accompanying sentences and the contents of the sentences quoted.
• There is a change in personal pronouns due to changes in the delivery of direct sentences into indirect sentences, these changes include.
• Changes in first person pronouns to third person pronouns, for example "I" or "I" changes to "he" or "he".
• Changing the second person pronoun to the first person pronoun, for example "you" becomes "I".
• Changing the second plural pronoun to us or them according to the context "you" becomes "we" or "we" becomes "them" or "we" becomes "us".
• All indirect sentences are in the form of news sentences.
• Usually there are the words "that", "because", "for", "so that", "about" and certain other words after the accompanying sentences.

How to Write Indirect Sentences

• Read the sentence without stressing the innotation
• There is a change in pronouns
• No need to use double quotes
• Use connecting words
• Indirect sentences are repetition of someone's words so that this sentence becomes a news sentence

Functions of Direct and Indirect Sentences

These two sentences have their own functions, namely direct sentences function to give orders or to make requests to someone. Meanwhile, indirect sentences function as conveying news, because they use language that is not directly from the source.

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Difference between Direct and Indirect Sentences

There are several differences between these two sentences, including:

Direct sentence

• The quote is a first-person question
• The editorial quote is original
• Use double quotation marks
• There is an emphasis on innotation when reading the quotation
• Using the subject I, we, I

Indirect sentence

• The quoted sentence is a repetition of the statement from the first person
• The editorial of the quotation is different from the original
• Do not use double quotation marks
• There is no emphasized innotation when reading the quotations
• Using the subject he, she, they

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Examples of Direct Sentences And Indirect Sentences

The examples of direct sentences and indirect sentences include:

Direct Sentence Examples

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  Mother asked, "Have you eaten?"

• Pak Yono said, "Tomorrow there will be an exam."
• "Father ordered, "buy skirt*k at the shop."
• "Who is the suspect in this case?" the reporter asked the judge.
• "Get into the car, don't push around," said the teacher to his students.
• Mother said, "You have to study hard to be smart, okay?"
• "I'm very tired today after hoeing in the fields." Father said to mother after returning from the fields.
• Dika said, "You try to help me to lift this table over there"
• Grandfather said, "Mia, don't keep playing with your cellphone, okay, you also have to study"
• Said the head of the group, "Thank you all for your welcome on this first visit"
• "Inner bonding in a mother and child relationship." He said, "It is a grace of God that is priceless."
• The teacher emphasized, "the important thing is not that we progress, but how do we achieve that progress!"
• Lida said, "My sister won the badminton competition in the village!"
• "I'll be back tonight." Eco said.
• "Dewi will come home from school together huh?" God said
• Mother said, "I will go to grandpa's house for a while."
• “Do you understand this formula?” asked Agung
• "Where does grandpa live?" asked Harry
• "I'm not ready yet!," said Shinta from inside her room "Wait another five minutes!"
• Father said, "You were looking for Adit and Erik"
• Uncle asked, "When did you go to Uncle's house in Malang?"
• Nana said, "let's stop by the cafe for a while?"
• Grandmother said, "I want to buy that mango"
• Mother said, "Tonight you have to study!"
• "Does your body still hurt?" asked mother
• Alfi said, "I will go to Jakarta tomorrow morning"
• The younger brother said, "What do you mean brother?"
• Mother said, "Where is sister now?"
• Grandpa said, "That's a big fish"
• "We have named him a suspect," said the police.
• Father ordered, "Clean up your room now!"
• "I am very grateful, "Hopefully our family will always be like this."
• "You are indeed a good child." Mother said to Budi
• Webby, "I will come to your house in the afternoon."
• Father ordered, "Take this letter to your office!"
• "Come on, come in one at a time!" The police bluffed at the three pickpockets who had just been caught
• "Who is the culprit behind the Bali bombing?" journalists asked Kadispen Polri
• "Sis, you are called mother!" Lilis said, "Tell me to eat."
• Mother said, "Anis, don't just play around, you have to study!"
• Uncle asked, "When did you leave for Solo?"
• Nina said, "Come to my house!"
• Grandfather Basir said, "I want to plant longan."
• “Do you also still have a stomach ache? asked Dad.
• Mother said, “Tonight you have to study!”
• Akbar said, "I will leave for Jakarta tomorrow afternoon."

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Examples of Indirect Sentences

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  Mother asked me if I had eaten.

• Mr. Yono said that tomorrow there will be an exam.
• The police said that he had already been named a suspect by them.
• The police managed to catch the five robbers red-handed and took them to the police station using a police car.
• Mother said to me that I shouldn't just play on my cellphone, but also have to study because it's almost an exam.
• Brother said goodbye to father, that he would go to recite the Koran with friends.
• Uncle said to me that I should study hard.
• Grandmother said that I had to go home early because it would rain later this afternoon.
• The group leader thanked you for coming to the visit.
• Dani told me that tonight we will study together.
• Rana asked when I would return the money.
• Sari asked to buy a new cell phone.
• Mother said to me, that the inner contact between parents and children is a gift from God that is priceless.
• Father told me to immediately clean my room.
• He is very grateful and hopes his family will always be like this.
• Mother told me that I was indeed a good boy.
• Webby said that he would come to Kun's house in the afternoon.
• Father told me to deliver this letter to his office.
• The police bully the three pickpockets who have just been caught to get them in one by one.
• Journalists asked Kadispen Polri about who was the culprit behind the Bali bombing.
• Lilis said to her sister that she had been called by her mother to eat.
• Mother said that I should not play games and I should study.
• The head of the group said thank you for our welcome to them on their visit.
• He said that the inner contact between mother and child is God's priceless grace.
• Samid asked when I would return the book.
• Tria asks him to buy a new car.
• Hamid said that he would come tonight.
• D. J Schwartz stressed that, what is important is not why we don't progress, but how we have to progress.
• Desmon asks Angel that he will take her home later.
• Ida said that her sister won first place.
• Mother said that she would go to grandma's house for a while.
• Pak Jamari asked if I knew this picture.
• Mira said that she wasn't ready to wait a bit.
• The ambassador asked me where I lived.
• Mother said that I was looking for Iwan.
• Uncle asked when I left for Solo.
• Nina asked me to come to her house.
• Basir's grandfather said that he wanted to plant longan.

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