Speech Saying exactly what someone has said is called direct speech (sometimes called quoted speech) Here what a person says appears within quotation marks ("...") and should be word for word. For example: She said, "Today's lesson is on presentations." or "Today's lesson is on presentations," she said. Indirect Speech / Reported Speech Indirect speech (sometimes called reported speech), doesn't use quotation marks to enclose what the person said and it doesn't have to be word for word
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secretary showed him it at the end of a list. He decided, therefore, that wrongdoers must be punished. But popularity was dear to him. He knew that, if he were suddenly strict after being lax, he would cause people to call him a tyrant. For this reason he told his Privy Council that he must go to Poland on important business of state. "I have chosen Angelo to rule in my absence," said he. Now this Angelo, although he appeared to be noble, was really a mean man. He had promised to marry a girl called Mariana
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will discover how she is murdered, and who her killer is. She was a student in Junior High School .She was a member of the Chess Club and Chem Club. Her favorite teacher was Mr. Botte he taut biology, Mr. Botte wasn't her killer thought. Susie Salmon was murdered on the night of December 6,1973. She was a white girl with mousy brown hair. Her sister Lindsey had her turned on to Juan Ramon Jimenez. It went like this if they give you a ruled paper, wright the other way. She chose it because it
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hours later Jessie was hungry. Theo couldn't say no to her this time. For the last hour she had been begging to stop and do something fun. Theo was tempted of course, his whole life had been lacking in fun. But he knew that they had to make good time to get to Chicago. Jamie was waiting for him and he didn't want to keep him too long. But it was 1:00 PM and he hadn't eaten breakfast. So he was also kinda hungry. He pulled into LCDon’s and parked. “Oh come on here?” Jessie asked. Sure this wasn't the
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accident; then she finds out that she is carrying his baby. For the first time ever, Scarlett really needs Halley. Now Halley has to learn how to be strong for Scarlett. It won't be easy, but Halley knows that she can't let Scarlett down. Because a true friend is a promise you keep forever. ( Word Converter - Unregistered ) http://www.word-pdf-converter.com ( Word Converter - Unregistered ) http://www.word-pdf-converter.com Best friends. "Scarlett?" I said, there in the dark, and as she turned
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claimed before sundown, he was coming in from the woods, when he got to the fence he heard Mayella screaming. He ran up to the window that is three feet off of the ground and saw Tom raping Mayella. The room looked like there had been a fight there. He saw that it was Tom, then he ran inside. After he Saw Mayella, he went straight to Mr. Tate. He also stated that he has asked the county for fifteen years to clean the nest of Negroes and he said that they are dangerous
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| | |by Susan Glaspell | | |When Martha Hale opened the storm-door and got a cut of the north wind, she ran back for her big woolen scarf. As she | | |hurriedly wound that round her head her eye made a scandalized sweep of her kitchen. It was no ordinary thing that | | |called her away--it was probably further from ordinary than anything that had ever happened in
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and ran an interested eye through the political news in the Times. He laid the paper down and glanced out of the window. They were running now through Somerset. He glanced at his watch-another two hours to go. He went over in his mind all that had appeared in the papers about Indian Island. There had been its original purchase by an American millionaire who was crazy about yachting-and an account of the luxurious modern house he had built on this little island off the Devon coast. The unfortunate
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Dedicated to my in-laws* *which does not mean I am henpecked, under her thumb or not man enough PROLOGUE “Why am I referred here? I don’t have a problem,” I said. She didn’t react. Just gestured that I remove my shoes and take the couch. She had an office like any other doctor’s, minus the smells and cold, dangerous instruments. She waited for me to talk more. I hesitated and spoke again. “I’m sure people come here with big, insurmountable problems. Girlfriends dump their boyfriends everyday
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than anyone else in town, needed to be killed. "I never liked him much," he wrote in the additional comments section of the incident survey. "He never seemed to have a good word to say about anybody." "Excellent use of a bullet," scrawled fimmy Blanchard. Born and raised in MerryValley, he had known Larry for years and had even graduated from high school with him. 'lMost overbearing person I've ever met. He deserved what he got. I'm just not sure why it took so long." Of course, a few people
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