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REPORED SPEECH

Reported Speech merupakan cara mengungkapkan apa yang


telah orang lain katakan. Logika sederhananya, Anda ingin
menyampaikan sesuatu yang telah dikatakan oleh orang lain.
Contoh percakapan singkat berikut mungkin bisa membantu Anda:

A: Saya ingin makan.


B: Oiya? Sebentar saya bilang ke C.
B menghampiri C.
B: A bilang, dia ingin makan. (Reported speech)
C: Ok, akan saya siapkan.
Itu merupakan salah satu contoh bagaimana reported speech
digunakan dalam bahasa Indonesia. Contoh dalam bahasa Inggris
adalah sebagai berikut.
Father: I need a paper.
Andy: My father said that He needed a paper. (Ayah
saya berkata bahwa dia memerlukan sebuah kertas.)
Child: I will go.
Arif: Your child said that he would go. (Anakmu
berkata bahwa dia akan pergi.)
Perubahan Tenses dalam Reported Speech
Dalam reported speech, ada perubahan tenses lho. Jadi kita tidak
hanya menggunakan kalimat biasa dengan hanya mengubah subjek.
Coba lihat contoh sebelumnya, ada kalimat I need a paper,
kemudian reported speech nya adalah My father said
that He needed a paper, dimana need berubah
menjadi needed.
Berikut ini tabel perubahannya:
From Into
Simple Present Simple Past
Simple Past Past Perfect
Present Perfect Past Perfect
Past Perfect Past Perfect
Will Would

Auxiliary Verbs Be
am / is was
Are were
was / were had been
has been had been
had been had been
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Di bawah ini merupakan tabel untuk contoh kalimat sebelum
mengalami perubahan, dan sesudah mengalami perubahan:

Direct Speech Reported Speech


Jenny: "I watch TV." Jenny said that she
watched TV.
Jenny: "I watched TV." Jenny said that she had
watched TV.
Jenny: "I have Jenny said that she had
watched TV." watched TV.
Jenny: "I had watched Jenny said that she had
TV." watched TV.
Jenny: "I will watch Jenny said that she would
TV." watch TV.
Continuous
Jenny: "I am watching Jenny said that she was
TV." watching TV.
Jenny: "They are Jenny said that they were
watching TV." watching TV.
Jenny: "They were Jenny said that they had
watching TV." been watching TV.
Reported speech juga tidak melulu menggunakan kata-kata said
that, sebagai elemen kunci. Anda bisa menggunakan kata lain
seperti told me, serta asked medan wanted to know jika
menghadapi kalimat pertanyaan.

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