While writing the ideal speech might be challenging, sticking to the appropriate speech writing structure will ensure that you never fall short. However, students should be aware of certain distinct punctuation and writing style techniques. Speech writing isn’t all that distinct from other types of narrative writing.
He asked whether the car was new or second-hand.Speech writing is the art of using proper grammar and expression to convey a thought or message to a reader. He said, "Is the car new or second-hand?" Questions with the verb BE always have a different structure: Was the tea cold? Where is my tea? You can see all these differences in the examples below. Reported choice questions have the same structure as Reported YES/NO questions. Choice questions: Do you prefer tea or coffee?.Question Word questions: Where did you drink tea?.Remember that there are basically three types of question: We introduce reported question-word questions with ask + question word: direct question "Whether" is a little more formal and more usual in writing: Note that we sometimes use "whether" instead of "if". But there is pronoun change and backshift. Note that in the above example the reported question has no auxiliary "do". We introduce reported YES/NO questions with ask + if: direct question The word order is like that of a normal statement (subject-verb-object). After we report a question, it is no longer a question (and in writing there is no question mark). (question-word questions)Īs with reported statements, we may need to change pronouns and tense (backshift) as well as time and place in reported questions.īut we also need to change the word order. He asked (me) why/ when/ where/ what/ how.We usually introduce reported questions with the verb "ask": Reported questions are one form of reported speech. Grammar : Reported Speech : Reported Questions
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