Saturday, November 24, 2012

Direct Speech

Direct Speech / Quoted 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.

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Narrative Text

Narrative text is an imaginative story to entertain readers.Other function of narrative text is for education.
Generic Structure

  • Orientation : It is about the opening paragraph where the characters, setting and time of the story are established.
  • Complication : When the problems in the story arise an involves main character.
  • Resolution : The problems are solved (better or worse).

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Persuading and Encouraging, Preventing Someone from Doing Something

Persuading
Persuading is an expression to persuade someone. So, someone want to do something as like as persuader's request.

Expressions of Persuading :
  • Are you really sure you can't/couldn't . . . ?
  • Don't be so silly!

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Contrastive conjunction and Modal perfect

Contrastive conjunctions used to emphasize the contrast between two ideas

The following are some contrastive conjunctions

  1. But, still, yet, although, even though, whereas, while

These conjunction combine two clauses which are/apposite/contrast one to another.

Example :

-          is short Donny, but he is strong.

-           Although Bella is an artist, she doesn’t ignore her studies.

-           Mr. David is rich, yet he is un happy.